Atheists & Agnostics

OriginalGeek

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12. Damn, I am a shitheel

Mon Jan 14, 2013, 04:57 PM

Jan 2013

When everyone was still alive and we had every Sunday dinner at the in-laws, I never once bowed my head during grace. I quietly spied out which dish I was going for first to get the best parts.

When my evangelical mother and stepfather visited, mom asked only once if I would say grace and I just said no. She never asked me again.

On another visit from mom, she and my wife ganged up on me to go to church with them and my wife secretly whispered that if I went with them she would "do me a favor" later on. I secretly whispered back that she wasn't THAT good at that particular favor. I thought it was pretty funny until the loooooooooooooong long drought for that particular favor.

Damn. And the worst part is that I actively do try not to be an ass about my atheism. Imagine if I wasn't trying!

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For all you atheists, agnostics and humanists who have lost your way - please read this [View all] Stuckinthebush Jan 2013 OP

Thank-you for this... NeoGreen Jan 2013 #1

I like what you're doing TxDemChem Jan 2013 #2

I'm an Eagle Scout Stuckinthebush Jan 2013 #5

Got mine in 1980 Gore1FL Jan 2013 #16

I defined "God" as the 4 forces of nature and the laws of Physics. Gore1FL Jan 2013 #17

Ramen! Demo_Chris Jan 2013 #3

And the people say... Stuckinthebush Jan 2013 #4

I know what you are saying, but Curmudgeoness Jan 2013 #6

Yup. progressoid Jan 2013 #8

Oh I agree completely Stuckinthebush Jan 2013 #9

I guess that I am not asked to say a prayer Curmudgeoness Jan 2013 #13

I don't pray. Iggo Jan 2013 #11

LOL. OK. Curmudgeoness Jan 2013 #14

My family knows I'm an atheist and I'm not to be included in their hocus pocus. Iggo Jan 2013 #15

Occasionally, I have dinner guests that ask if we can pray... cleanhippie Jan 2013 #19

LOL! Stuckinthebush Jan 2013 #20

If it is really important to those people, Curmudgeoness Jan 2013 #25

When my daughter's boyfriend visited for the first time noamnety Jan 2013 #7

So wrong! Stuckinthebush Jan 2013 #10

Damn, I am a shitheel OriginalGeek Jan 2013 #12

Nah....not a shitheel at all! Stuckinthebush Jan 2013 #22

You spy out the best foods!!! LOL! Curmudgeoness Jan 2013 #26

You gotta make a plan! OriginalGeek Jan 2013 #27

Thanks for the laughs. Curmudgeoness Jan 2013 #28

I won't say grace if asked to. Gore1FL Jan 2013 #18

Or you could just say... Stuckinthebush Jan 2013 #21

"Rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the grub. Yea god!" Ligyron Jan 2013 #23

So I went to my husband's uncle's funeral last night TxDemChem Jan 2013 #24