(August 9, 2014 at 1:29 am)NemesisPrime Wrote: First off I want to just stop for a sec and say hi! Just been been for a bit and I can tell I'm gonna like it here.
Onto the topic, my father passed away this Sunday and the pastor as the funeral all but demanded my family start going to his church cause we didn't have a "church family". Now this pisses me off for a number of reasons first of which being he's taking advantage of my mother while still in a delicate state of mind. Second he was my high school principal but that's not important.
See, me and my youngest brother are atheists and we've since disillusioned ourselves of the dogma that is Christianity and frankly we have no desire to go back to such a way of things and feel we can heal WITHOUT it.
So my question is what do we do about it? I want to respect her wishes if it helps get over her grief but that's not how we do things.
PS. For the record I'm 23 and my brother is 14.
NP, yes the pastor was a right bastard to use a funeral to attempt to make converts. However, they do it all the time.
Of course you can heal without the eber-lubbin arms o' jeebus wrapped around you. I did when mom passed (and did a better job of it than my christer brothers).
If your mom wants to visit the church a couple times to help with the grief, then go. Be with her and help support her. If she wants to make a lifestyle change, sit her down and explain why you're not interested in attending church, any church.
(August 9, 2014 at 1:35 am)psychoslice Wrote: Easy, respect whatever your mother wants to be, religion may be wrong in your eye's but it has helped many people through trying times. You have no right to force your beliefs on anyone, this is nothing shorty of being arrogant, yes keep you own beliefs to yourself.[emphasis is mine]
Fucking hypocrite
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