RE: How to tell parents I'm an atheist
April 4, 2014 at 1:34 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2014 at 1:41 pm by MJ the Skeptical.)
Don't listen to this Polaris guy, as long as your parents won't abandon you, kick you out or marginalize you then you should feel comfortable telling them if it comes up or is important to you.
Complete horseshit, both require you to act differently if the religious people are making you act differently. Ironically, most religions inherently hate both of those groups, what a shocker.
In the Armed forces in the US, you have to go to prayer sessions, to be a politician you have to hide that you're an Atheist, you most certainly have to act differently as an Atheist and it's sickening that anyone has to. The fact of the matter is, your beliefs inform your actions. And your religious/irreligious beliefs affect your everyday life. The guy who just killed his son because he wanted to continue their argument in the afterlife, that religion of his informed his actions. And if he was an atheist I seriously doubt he would have tried to kill them both so they could argue in some fictitious place where the argument is solved. Acting gay and acting atheist both don't require a change in who you are unless it's the people around who make you hide and change.
(April 2, 2014 at 11:05 pm)Polaris Wrote: Don't tell them. Unlike homosexuality, atheism doesn't require you to act different than what is considered normal.
Complete horseshit, both require you to act differently if the religious people are making you act differently. Ironically, most religions inherently hate both of those groups, what a shocker.
In the Armed forces in the US, you have to go to prayer sessions, to be a politician you have to hide that you're an Atheist, you most certainly have to act differently as an Atheist and it's sickening that anyone has to. The fact of the matter is, your beliefs inform your actions. And your religious/irreligious beliefs affect your everyday life. The guy who just killed his son because he wanted to continue their argument in the afterlife, that religion of his informed his actions. And if he was an atheist I seriously doubt he would have tried to kill them both so they could argue in some fictitious place where the argument is solved. Acting gay and acting atheist both don't require a change in who you are unless it's the people around who make you hide and change.
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.
