Check out this video, it's a woman flying completely off the handle and acting in a very unchristian way in response to her son's admission of atheism:
http://www.yikers.com/video_dont_tell_your_mom_youre_atheist.html
Was anyone's else experience similar? Anyone have interesting stories about when they told their parents or friends that they were atheist?
2007-04-10 05:33:40 · 15 answers · asked by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Poor kid. Why didn't his father step in?
2007-04-10 05:40:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I 'came out' shortly after I got confirmed too. My mother was concerned with appearances, and said that I could believe whatever I wanted to believe, but I still had to go to church, because that would reflect better on her. So I started helping out in the nursery, where the kids are too young for Bible instruction (at least in my mainline Protestant denomination; I don't know about other churches).
Everybody goes home happy. Mom got to keep up appearances, I got my beliefs acknowledged by a family member, and babies are easy to entertain.
I moved away from home a couple of years after that, and quietly stopped going to church.
My mother's pretty cool. Except she uses the "It's OK" "It's NOT OK!" arguing device that the mother in the video used.
2007-04-10 05:52:56 · answer #2 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always been atheist, but whenever I tell my parents to quit trying to talk to me about theism they don't listen. They think I'm going through a phase and really do believe in the Christian god.
Morons.
*Edit after watching clip* Wow... someone shoot that woman and put her out of her deluded misery. And why's the stupid husband just sitting there? What a wimp.
2007-04-10 05:42:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Crazy people.
Christmas isn't about Jesus Christ any more than Easter (which celebrates the goddess Eastre) is about Jesus... Christmas is pretty much a Mithras or Dionysus birthday celebration with Jesus shoehorned in. They even left in some of the pagan symbols.
2007-04-10 05:41:54 · answer #4 · answered by Mike K 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
THAT is DEAD ON of a Christian response!
Thankfully I was raised by intelligent, logical parents. I was raised Presbyterian, but eventually became an atheist and an evolutionist. My parents were both cool with it and supported my decision.
2007-04-10 05:39:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just had to log out of that user profile, log into a different one, so that I could see that video. (Long story, my computer is whack).
Anyway, it was totally worth doing that to see this video. Fasinating and disgusting. Poor kid. Wish I could email him.
Yes, not that off-the-wall but I was older when I came out. There were tears and a bit of screaming. One family member stopped speaking to me. (No loss tho really)
2007-04-10 05:48:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-21 13:01:40 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a true Fundamentalist nutjob.
2007-04-10 05:40:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
My father disowned me. In 28 years I can count on one hand the number of "conversations" we've had, and they never go beyond "Hey, how are you? I'm fine, yourself?"
I couldn't disown my kids for any reason, but my father put his God before his own daughter. Pathetic.
2007-04-10 05:40:37 · answer #9 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I've gotten the blank stares when you haul out the logic after they asked you to tell it to them... kinda like a catatonic, drooling stare... nothing as off-the-chain though.
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2007-04-10 05:38:00 · answer #10 · answered by vinslave 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
my mom tried that "nothing for christmas" thing when I told her when I was eleven. That's the funniest argument. I feel sorry for that boy. My mom wasn't that upset.
2007-04-10 05:41:08 · answer #11 · answered by elfkin, attention whore 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋