(April 20, 2017 at 5:00 pm)Lek Wrote:(April 20, 2017 at 3:48 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Actually, Lek, what this reads to me is someone who has made a decision not to believe in the religion they were brought up in and the family just won't accept that fact. It's something we, as atheists encounter quite a lot.
I don't see any hatred or disdain here. I do see frustration.
From a personal perspective, 20 years after I became an atheist, my mother and her sisters, Catholics, are still pushing their beliefs on me, even when I tell them that's enough.
Yet they have the gall to complain about other relatives, Jehovah's Witnesses, trying to push their brand of cultish Christianity onto the Catholics. "Can't they accept boundaries??"
I can sympathize with you, but she just announced her decision and hasn't even talked to her dad since.
Well, I haven't spoken to my Dad for three weeks and he's my favourite person in the world. And an atheist. And a GP.
Dying to live, living to die.
