I Was An Atheist By Third Grade

[jonstl08]

37. For me when my mother passed away

Mother passed away in 1980 from Breast Cancer. The most religious person I ever met. Went to Catholic Mass three times a week. Confession every week. Never drank, smoked but did say the occasional curse word at us kids when we did something bad. Never had an affair and took my father back when he had affairs because it was the "Christian" thing to do. All these people would coming over to the house to pray cancer away. Nothing worked, She suffered three years with cancer before passing away.

At her funeral all these people came up and said it was God's plan for her to die. So Gods plan was to leave 5 kids age 15 - 4 with an abusive father who disappeared on weekends. I was the oldest so I had to raise my siblings. That is when I started to not believe because now I see all these people who my parents knew were very immoral live to see and enjoy their grandkids and my mother never was able to experience that.