That was frustrating to read (most definitely not because it was written poorly, but because I empathize with you). The last sentence, however, was an outright gut punch.
Being raised Catholic, though, it’s not surprising at all.
When my grandfather was on his deathbed, my grandma (being highly-Catholic-religious and living in the highly-Catholic country of Malta) called a priest to read him his last rites.
My grandad, upon seeing the priest enter the room, gained a sudden moment of clarity & strength. He raised his head from the pillow and loudly said “Who let that cunt in?”. Legend!
Sorry you had to suffer through a bullshit shakedown masquerading as religious ceremony at your grandpa’s funeral.
Thank you very much. I really wish that there were socially acceptable ways of mourning that didn't involve giving someone else money in exchange for promises about the hereafter.
How do leprechauns feel about it? What about Zeus? Santa? Have the magical pixies weighed in yet and shared their opinion regarding disbelief with you?
The two men executed, Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare, died at Arak Prison in central Iran on Monday. They had been arrested in May 2020, accused of being involved in a channel on the Telegram message app called “Critique of Superstition and Religion,” according to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. Both men faced months of solitary confinement and could not contact their families, the commission said.
"Critique of superstition and Religion"
In my dictionary, when you cannot leave a religion then it is called a cult.
And this is why this subject matters. People keep getting killed for promoting atheism. I've worked with iranians in the past and some among them told me how happy they were to work remote from Iran, in a country where they can stop faking being a muslim. It was a relief for them for the duration of their stay.
Nobody ever asked this "web designer" to design a website for a LGBTQIA+ wedding. This is a created farce, about a "what if". This person creates web templates, and doesn't want LGBTQIA+ to be able to buy them as anyone else could. Conservative donors cherry picked this to ride it up the line to get their time in front of the corrupt, broken SCOTUS.
This allows a person to say that, if they FEEL that whatever their work is is a demonstration of art or self expression, they can limit who receives it... A.K.A. "I put love into all the food I make at this diner I own, and my religion is for white, Christians only. We don't serve food to none of the other non-whites. You need to leave!"
I agree, but fuck em. I wear my atheism with pride, and anyone who tries to speak bad of me because of it will get tenfold back about their idiotic superstitions, in fact I enjoy such things immensely.
Created just after World War Two, institutions run by nuns took in underage girls and pregnant unmarried women until the late 1980s. These women were subjected to unpaid labour, humiliating conditions, and in some cases, sexual abuse.
During childbirth, some women were given general anaesthetic while others had to wear a mask – all ways to prevent mothers from seeing their child, who were immediately separated after birth. Some women were even sterilised. Others were forced to sign a document renouncing their child or were told the child was stillborn.
They claim superior morality and ethics without any evidence to prove that at all. Do not believe the lies of religions. They harm individuals and society, and should not be allowed to exist in their current form.
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