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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saying "I'm not religious" also works well for me & easily shuts down any religious geared conversations.

I just say bless you. If someone wants to pray for me I equate it to sending good thoughts or well wishes, though thinking of you is so much more appropriate imo.

I do much prefer my atheist friends to my christian friends -- the older I get, the more my christian friends feel completely unrelatable. I just find religion so sad, and that it's hard to know the user really truly believes it all and carries so much guilt and shame, which having grown up religious, I've found to be highly damaging emotions to have fostered. It's also hard for me to see how religious parents force it onto their children.[/quote]

Christians may carry guilt and shame, but they also have hope for eternal life and seeing their loved ones again.[/quote]

Yes but that's part of the problem, christians believe those things are part of and exclusive to their christianity. Hearing their elitism at funerals is really something.

Listening to the racket about how overjoyed they are that their "loved one" died is another glad I'm not religious moment.

Having a soul is not some novel christian concept yet they seem to believe it is and work it into conversations often, but with all  these religious twists.[/quote]

Is there a way to convey to them that you don't believe what they do?[/quote]

DP. But there's no need to do this. Esp.not at a funeral. Let them believe what they want if it gives them comfort.  I don't have a problem with that, as long as they don't expect me to believe it.[/quote]

Their funerals their business yes... though I still don't think its healthy for society in general to use their superiority the way its used. It's that they project that same view at the funerals of non-followers, like believing someone who died by suicide, or enacted MAID is going to hell.[/quote]

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