First and foremost
I don't have anything against Atheists. I have an Atheist friend, so I'm covered. There is no concrete evidence either way, so I aint mad at ya. To each their own. I'm not trying to tease or mock or argue on this one, I just want to identify a certain kind of Atheist and have a community chat about the Atheists you know and what they say and do. And if someone wants to go ahead and make a 'Religious people you know...' thread, go for it! I got tons of crazy shit to post there!
My entire family is Atheist. As many know I was an Atheist for 2 semesters while in college. That said, virtually every single holiday when the family gets together, it's just a matter of time before someone says out of nowhere 'Jesus Christ is the greatest myth of all time' or 'like Jesus really came back from the dead...C'MON!' or 'how could anyone possibly know December 25th was Jesus birthday?' The Masonic lineage also shows up for round 2. 'Jesus is just a combination of Spartacus and Mythra' along with a bunch of other esoteric hubbub. Those are all things I hear every single (religious related) holiday without fail, and plenty more that can take up hours of everybody reassuring everybody else that we are all smart and none of us are dumb because none of us believe in sky-daddy fairy tales.
So, one year I brought my girlfriend with who is religious. Her and her family have had an impact on me to put it simply, and yes the religious person I know who blames everything on demons is her sister. That year I asked my family 'hey, okay, we all get that religion is phony jabroni and that there is no proof, but I'm bringing Tiffany with this year, so please for one year can we skip all the dogmatic negativity? I would appreciate it
' .....yeah.....right! First couple hours were fine, but I guess the family simply could not hold out any longer and then the 'religion is a crutch for the weak' bomb got dropped and it actually sparked some real debate for once and of course I was taking sides with my huny-buny while also not discounting or arguing down anyone else. Needless to say, it was another family holiday that left a bad taste in my mouth. Besides me being stubborn and admitting I don't believe in hell (which brought a tear to Tiff's eye) and I had to explain that the entire 2 hour ride home, and besides dinosaurs coming up and Tiffany saying half-heartedly 'dinosaurs are a hoax' which got loud laughter and brought out the paleontology books.... finally I asked the entire family 'so if all of it is bullcrap, why in the blue hell do we always celebrate the religious holidays???' Mostly the answer was 'well the family gets together and that is a good thing...' and I was like 'yeah but WHY does the family get together?' and nobody had a response for that so I declared that from now on in my family the holidays are about FAMILY and not about things nobody believes in.So yeah, that's shit Athiests I know say
