(July 21, 2012 at 7:01 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: They better not fucking use this as an excuse to advertise their deity, I swear I'll fucking hurt the first fucker who does.No need for threats here. We are still the same species. I am just asking for personal stories to counter the idea that a deity is need to cope with trauma.
But I get where you're coming from, here. It's always very awkward to be an atheist who just suffered a tragedy...you never really have an extra grounding for your grief. The barrage of "[relative] is in a better place now...s/he is with god, now" always just...makes me cringe. I can't say "Fuck you, I don't believe in that shit." I can't say "Yes, she is," because I don't buy that shit and it'd be disingenuous to say so. And I can't go "I don't believe that, but thank you," because then for some reason the person who said it starts looking at you funny.
Happens every fucking time.
I get just as sick of it as you. But we are still talking about human suffering.
