(June 13, 2017 at 3:33 pm)Secular Elf Wrote: I have not been on Atheist Forums much in the past couple of months mainly because one I have been on Facebook mostly and reading an e-book and also my brother died a couple of weeks ago.
Majority of my family are Christian, I am the only atheist in this family that I know of.
I attended his funeral. Though I intellectually understand the need for funerals, both anthropologically and sociologically, on a personal level for myself I do not like attending Christian funeral services. When my uncle died about a month and a half ago, I did not attend, mainly because I do not like being around my Conservative and Republican relatives, but also I do not want to be preached to. Christian funerals are, as far as I am concerned, an excuse to proselytize people and I hate being proselytized.
All the people who came to me and gave their religious platitudes of "he is in a better place" and "he is in heaven with God" do not impress me. It only pisses me off.
So, at any rate, there it is. Another example of why rational secular people get dumped on living in a general and specific religious culture.
I am venting. Just wanted to get this off my chest. Yes my brother was a Christian, but I still loved him and I miss him. I said goodbye, in my own way, despite all the nonsense.
Different people have different beliefs or no beliefs.
Your brother as you say was a Christian so obviously there was a Christian funeral.
I don't see why you should get upset about it.
Live and let live ......believe or not believe.
If I should worry every time someone say or does something that don't follow with my beliefs I
would have gone already insane.
To be upset for your brother death is natural but getting upset for what other people think or follow is not
a great idea.
