(September 6, 2013 at 10:51 pm)Faith No More Wrote: I don't know if it's Catholic funerals or what, but I had a bad experience with one, too. After the service I was just scratching my head thinking, "What the fuck?!?" It wasn't as explicit as your example, but it definitely sent the message that my deceased friend now resides in hell.
My best friend's grandfather died in January and she and her family spent quite a while reading through different bible translations trying to find the wording they wanted for certain passages - and then the (catholic) priest who officiated/presided over/conducted the funeral read the passage and then expounded on some bizarre "and this is how we interpret this..." which completely pissed the whole family off.
As for my reason for being an atheist:
You can't profess a belief in something you don't think exists and I have no reason (no philosophical reason, no evidential scientific reason, no intellectually honest reason) to think that any gods exist. Therefore I'm an atheist.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
