Do you have the same opinions?

[TarShoduze]

[Jackie]

Is this really worth responding to? That person is a fucking idiot. That is all that needs to be said.

[pocaracas]

More important than "why do atheists cry at funerals", is the question: why do christians cry at funerals?
Are they so convinced that their loved ones are going to hell?
Or, if they are going to heaven, the funeral should be a celebration, a happy occasion... why do they make it a sad event? Why do they cry?


Everything else is just hypocrisy on the part of whoever wrote that.

[TarShoduze]

More important than "why do atheists cry at funerals", is the question: why do christians cry at funerals?
Are they so convinced that their loved ones are going to hell?
Or, if they are going to heaven, the funeral should be a celebration, a happy occasion... why do they make it a sad event? Why do they cry?
Everything else is just hypocrisy on the part of whoever wrote that.

I'd say that I'd cry because I'd miss them. But after some time, I'd be happy--really--because... They're dead! They won't suffer in Earth any more. I'm not saying anything like "heaven". I'm just saying that he'd feel nothing--no pleasure, no pain--because he/she's dead.
As for your question, living in a really religious country means some laughable experiences. When my grandfather died, my family had someone who would recite prayers for many days after he died. Then they joined that praying woman overnight, begging for my grandfather not to go to hell, et cetera. It was crazy. I was already an Atheist that time, so whenever I think of that incident, I think of that praying woman wearing a Superman costume, except she had a "P" in place of an "S", for "Pamahiin" (which means "superstitious beliefs" in my language). Too bad I had to see those moments--they're funny, anyway!

[CapnAwesome]

I'm kind of skeptical that that is a real list of things said, not because I believe that Christian's wouldn't privately say such sort of nonsense to each other. In fact I've heard similar things before growing up. No, I'm skeptical because the spelling is abnormally good for an internet chat room, much less a christian internet chat room.

[TaraJo]

I cry at funerals. A friend of mine died last summer and I cried at his funeral. He was gone and that was just it. It feels more difficult to know he's gone and he's not in some afterlife or he's being reincarnated or anything else like that. The person who wrote that just sounds likea bigot who, if given the opportunity, is going to say any mean thing he can about atheists.

[Faith No More]

Life's too short to respond to every dipshit that says something this stupid about atheists. Beisdes, I'm too busy eating babies and worshipping Satan to care.

[Dee Dee Ramone]

I remembe an article a while ago on this topic, but I can't find it now.

I could be wrong, but the essence was that religious people and atheists go through a similair mourning process and suffer equally.

Edit; A lot of people actually lose their faith or go back to church after a loved one died, or when they get seriously ill.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Folk won like to hate monger do more to deconstruct the Christian/religious ethos and create more non-believers than any rational argument ever could.

I say to that man' "keep up the good work!"

[Norfolk And Chance]

More important than "why do atheists cry at funerals", is the question: why do christians cry at funerals?
Are they so convinced that their loved ones are going to hell?
Or, if they are going to heaven, the funeral should be a celebration, a happy occasion... why do they make it a sad event? Why do they cry?


Everything else is just hypocrisy on the part of whoever wrote that.

Indeed.

Christians also seem quite scared of death considering they believe it is only a new beginning, an eternal, blissful one.

If I KNEW it was real and that I was going to heaven, and it was such a great place, I'd be desperate to throw a fucking seven?

I can only conclude that deep down they must have doubts that the baloney they believe is true (and so they should)