I'm not talking about the monologue, i'm talking about disguising the fact that you are an athiest. If you know that constantly berrating your mother every time she mentions god would harm your relationship, which i'm sure it would, then don't, but she should know that you are an athiest. It's the fact that people live for years pretending to be something they are not, not being an ass about it, but putting on a mask of sorts when in public that bothers me. Everyone has inner monologue, but out of respect I let my family speak their minds most of the time without jumping in. However if they say something I feel is wrong, I've no problems jumping on them for it, an attribute which my mother says she admires.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
