Comment by John Voss on October 24, 2011 at 11:44pm

I feel you, and couldn't agree more.  What I can't figure out is why rational thought is translated into bitterness.  When you express the ridiculousness of the situation, or thought, or belief, you are called bitter, only because you are not deluded.  I am more militant in my beliefs.  I believe religion of any kind is a blight and should be eradicated for the good of the planet.  It is a means by which the population's thoughts are limited and controlled.  

 

Comment by Stephen B Boudreau on October 25, 2011 at 1:02am

Remember that you can limit your contact with everyone. Then if they don't get the message stop the contact altogether. It is a very tough decision to make, but you would have some solace in the peace. Your family will eventually come around and Stop the bull shit or they will not have you in their life. Reaction is what they want. No contact is something they may have to accept.

 

Keep a cool head and your chin up. We're all here for you.

Comment by scLovely on October 25, 2011 at 1:37am

AGREED! And I will add to it:

... because people say "but you have to believe in something" or "you really do believe deep down inside"

.... because people insist it is a stage that I am going through.

.... because there is 4 churches within throwing distance from my house.

.... because churches are not taxed

.... because so many good "christians" mistreat and abuse animals

.... because I have to be reluctant to express that I am not a believer

... because everyone that I meet automatically assumes I am a christian (because its just the normal thing to be)

.... because I have to see Jesus fish on most of the cars, crosses on most everyones necklaces or tattooed on their arms, Bibles in the nightstands of every hotel I have ever stayed at, pamphlets on every street corner by people selling stuff that isn't real, people knocking on my door to share 2000 yr old "news", "in god we trust" on our money, "Under god" in our pledge, homosexuals looked down upon, interracial relationships looked down upon, children singing jesus songs when they should be learning something useful during critical years of development, and most of all, the smug looks on their faces because they think they have it all figured out and we are just the idiots.

... because people say stupid little sayings like "jesus is the reason for the season".

... because I get told "bless you" or "have a blessed day" everywhere down here.

....because people can think that all other religions are absurd, but think theirs is perfectly reasonable, no questions asked.

Its bedtime for me too! :)

...

 

Comment by Kevin Cross on October 25, 2011 at 3:31am

I feel the SAME exact way...its the reason i have to get rid of my crazy ass Jehovah Witness Girlfriend. It will NEVER work. She went from 1 on the religion strength scale to a 50 shortly after we got together, and we've argued about it extensively 3 times since February because she was attempting to push her crap on me. All of those points you brought up, are exactly the way i have been feeling for a WHILE now. I only have a couple of friends that i can comfortably share my atheism with, because my dads side of the family are the OVERLY religious, african american, Jesus freak Baptists or Protestants, and my mothers side of the family are Catholic, Pope crazy caucasions, who will all go into SHOCK when they find out im atheist. So i just dont talk about it with them. But it's SO ANNOYING when i get a promotion or something, and comments like "He always sustains" or "God don't make no mistakes"....SMH...OMAG (oh my atheist god, LMAO) NO ONE made that happen but me, STFU....LOL!

Comment by Nate on October 25, 2011 at 12:23pm

You are not alone friend.  I think the more we tend to learn and read the more pissed we become at the ignorance of religion.  I try and think "hate the sin, not the sinner" approach, but as more time goes on, I have come to realize that is really just religious BS.  Its a cop out of not taking responsibility for your actions.  If they want to pray to a holy toaster, by all means do, its when their delusions begin to affect those around them that I start to draw the line.  This is the problem with religion and its nuts.  They force themselves to govern others based on religious laws and ideas that they think is correct and just.  The more we look into things the more we see their will forced upon us and that pisses us off.  We didn’t like being controlled when we were part of the collective, and now that were free from dogmatic control, to see them try and still force it down our throats is insulting and degrading. 

 

Comment by Thomas Marshall on October 25, 2011 at 12:50pm

I couldn't agree more!

Comment by Al Zinin on October 25, 2011 at 3:48pm

MB I will join someone in being pissed seeing "born from above" crashing and smashing lifes of innocent people.

Comment by FSM on October 26, 2011 at 2:07am

That sounds so awful to have to deal with such a disrespectful and intrusive family. I would imagine that they are probably bad with boundaries in other ways too. I'm a psychologist and we psychologists love helping people set boundaries on their inappropriate family members - just a thought on one possible resource since your family sounds a bit out of control. Your son is lucky to have an intelligent and insightful mom to support him in engaging in critical thinking and to show him that there are multiple ways of viewing religion - great job. :) 

Comment by Cristynfaye on October 28, 2011 at 3:40pm

I have a good friend who is a Christian who I was emailing back and forth, talking about things in our lives.  She's going through a painful divorce right now, and I was trying to be moral support for her.  She was asking me about my loss of faith, and asked what I believed, and I told her that I don't know what I believe, I want to believe in God, but it's not likely that I will be able to continue holding onto that belief.  

 

Then she told me "Well, just don't become one of those angry atheists".

 

I was stunned by that remark.  I was an angry Christian, because I could see the hypocrisy and injustices and ignorance in my fellow Christians, and I was loud about my indignation.  Now that I'm teetering on atheism, I still feel that indignation, but in a different way.  Because of friends who don't (or wont) understand where I'm coming from.  About people who expect me to just keep on blindly following, or people who think I will one day choose Christ again, because I once knew him.  People who don't listen, but speculate.   

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