Comments on: A Couple Atheists Act All “Christian”

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:43:31 +0000

Tim Y was the writer. Kyle is a nonrelated individual.

By: John B

John B — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:20:44 +0000

James Dobson has cleverly deduced our Evil Atheist Plans to win over (so we can eat) The Children, damn him! I call for a secret meeting at the underground Evil Atheist Lair to devise a scheme to silence him before it’s too late! We must not let him win this war!

By: Wick

Wick — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:19:16 +0000

wow…Tim should be proud. no one before him has discovered that Jim Dobson and most of his followers are a bit unloving and off the mark. *applause*

As for Kyle…well, he’s 12 (says so anyways). I’ll leave my remarks for the obvious.

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:03:43 +0000

I also was made to go through confirmation after I made my family aware that I was atheist. They thought that it was “just a phase” and that confirmation was something that, as a mature Christian adult, I’d like to have. I resisted, but in the end I went through with it to keep up appearances. I know that if my parents’ peers knew that I was atheist, they would view my parents as failures and myself as a second-class human being. The church staff who were running confirmation classes had no idea of how to handle me and my endless stream of questions. The only part of it saving it from being a total waste of my time was that it served to further confirm that it was not for me. As a mature, atheist adult, it’s nice to be able to say that at the very least I know what I am rejecting.

By: miller

miller — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:47:44 +0000

I don’t buy it. This guy can’t be 12. 12-year-olds aren’t that articulate!

When I was given the option of confirmation (at an older age), I was still Catholic, but I declined. I always saw confirmation as something that you do of your own free will, because you weren’t really given a choice when you were baptized. I refused to be forced into it, because that would simply be antithetical to the whole idea of confirmation. Kind of silly, in retrospect.

By: Izzib3th

Izzib3th — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:35 +0000

I was 15 or so when I went through my Confirmation. I wish I had written it down. I had already told my parents and my entire family that I was an atheist and did not want to go through the ceremony, but I was convinced by my atheist uncle to just go through with it to keep the peace. I did.

I think the deal I made with my mom was that if I did it I wouldn’t have to go back to church ever again (I remember being made to go back a couple of times anyway, but eventually I got my wish).