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Atheists & Agnostics

Warpy

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1. I never did come out as an atheist to my parents

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Jun 30, 2016, 07:02 PM

Jun 2016

although I made it quite clear I had no use for the church and hadn't since I was ten. That upset them enough.

It was funny, at their respective ends, both came out to me that they had stopped believing a word of it. I know reading the bible cover to cover finally did it for my mother. I have no idea what did it for my dad, I'm just relieved that they both died free of fear of a nasty, vindictive, petty, judgmental, and capricious god.

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