(January 7, 2018 at 8:54 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(January 7, 2018 at 5:56 am)Die Atheistin Wrote: Words associated with Chrisitianity (for example God, Jesus, Church, cross), Islam (Allah, Coran, Mohammed, mosque) and with Judaism (synagogue, Moses, Noah's ark) make me feel disgusted. Everytime I hear, spell or think about them it literally makes me sick to my stomach, luckily never to the point of throwing up.
Words from Non-abrahamic religions disgust me less, but I still dislike many of them.
This will make the moment when I'll come out as atheist to my family hard, because I'll have to hear and spell these words. My family members will try to convince me to return to the faith, so they'll use these words and I'll have to explain them why I don't want to return, so I'll have to use these words.
Could I use the fact that I'm disgusted by religious words as an argument when I'll come out of the closet?
Does anyone feel the same regarding religious words?
No. How can you be disgusted by words? I've got a mate called 'Moses', he's not disgusting. There's a church at the nearest intersection to my house, nothing disgusting there.
Boru
I don't feel disgusted by normal people with biblical names, it's the biblical characters I dislike. Sometimes I feel a little uncomfortable when meeting people with biblical names, but then I remember that Kim is a pretty popular name and Kim Jong-un is a dictator and Kim Kardashian is who she is. I don't think there is a firstname that isn't associated with bad people, your name doesn't make you a bad person. Also, many biblical names existed before the Bible, so they aren't entirely tied to it.
"By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none"
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin