RE: Does your family know that you are an atheist?
April 27, 2012 at 9:42 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2012 at 9:48 pm by BadSheep.)
I voted some. My mom and sister know, my dad doesn't. Dad is the religious one of our family. He and the extended family are all Mormon. At least there is no pressure from the extended family (and I do mean extended. 42 cousins extended!), they wrote me off years ago because I haven't had kids and don't plan to.
It is hard when the "others" are people that you care about. For me, its my dad. I love my dad and want him to be proud of me. Of course I care what he thinks. I know he would never do something like disown me, but I don't want him to be disappointed in me, either.
(April 20, 2012 at 1:30 pm)5thHorseman Wrote: Actually, I have changed my mind. Why do some of you worry about what others think? It may be time for you to be honest and for them to grow up. Do not live your life by the expectations of others.
It is hard when the "others" are people that you care about. For me, its my dad. I love my dad and want him to be proud of me. Of course I care what he thinks. I know he would never do something like disown me, but I don't want him to be disappointed in me, either.
We are are part of nature, built from the same stuff as stars, planets, asteroids, and comets. Our protons and neutrons have been around since the earliest times, glued together into heavy elements of long dead ancient suns, blasted out into the universe and resculpted from diffuse interstellar dust clouds by the gentle hand of gravity. When the pattern of atoms known to be you ceases to be, the building blocks will return to the voids of space, and in a billion years or more, they may take their place in another structure so beautiful that a future mind may perceive it to be the work of a god. ~ Brian Cox
