Comments on: Responses to “I’m an Atheist”

By: AnonyMouse

AnonyMouse — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:46:49 +0000

From my dad: “Well, you’d better start believing, because… *argument ad Hades*”

By: Friendly Atheist » Your Children Tell You They’re Religious: Your Reaction?

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:00:28 +0000

[...] We talk a lot on this site about how children who become atheists should come out to their family and what the reactions are. [...]

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:43:43 +0000

My mother told me “You’re too young to know what you believe, give it a few years.”

Of course I came out as an atheist when I was 12 or 13-ish

Props to mom and dad for raising the kids right! Though my mother is a Quaker and my father’s Episcopalian they managed to raise three atheist kids by encouraging us to think for ourselves.

By: Friendly Atheist » Unexpected Reaction to Atheism

Friendly Atheist » Unexpected Reaction to Atheism — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:00:38 +0000

[...] some cases, you know the reaction to your atheism won’t be very [...]

By: Bob Crispen

Bob Crispen — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:55:56 +0000

I’m still think the politest thing to say is “I’m not very religious,” or “Thanks, I’m not very religious,”or if you have to be confrontational, “I’m not religious.” But I never “Sorry, I’m not religious.” What do I have to apologize for? I’m not the one pushing my religion on other people.

By: Bob Crispen

Bob Crispen — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:44:08 +0000

wrt chickens, I always quote McLuhan (or was it Fuller?: “A chicken is an egg’s way of making other eggs.” I’m not sure if it means anything, or even if if’s supposed to, but it sounds clever and it might make talkative people shut up long enough for you to escape.

By: Bob Crispen

Bob Crispen — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:31:24 +0000

Sorry, it wasn’t everybody talking, it was me getting screwed up and posting twice. That lame joke wasn’t even worth posting once. Amway is a multilevel marketing thing, and pretty much the only way to avoid having a friend ask you to become an Amway distributor is never to have any friends. Adherents are pretty much as persistent as Jehovah’s Witnesses, but unlike them, the stuff Amway sells is At least it seems real.

By: Bob Crispen

Bob Crispen — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:01:55 +0000

@ben: cool. Do I really want to know what a “working” is?

By: Bob Crispen

Bob Crispen — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:58:22 +0000

@beth: your bf sounds like every woman’s dream: Aw, you just think you’re having contractions.

By: Ben Dreidel

Ben Dreidel — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:22:27 +0000

@Rev. Bob:

I think the strangest one was from my mother. I told her I’d become a Unitarian and tha Unitarians believe in, at most, one god.

That’s been updated:

After the secular humanists came along, we said that UUs believe in One God – at Most. Now, what with the 6th Source and the pagans, we say that UUs believe in One God – More or Less.

http://www.firstunitariantoronto.org/uu_humour.htm