Question: When an Atheist dies, do they get a funeral service or do they just get dumped in the ground?
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This is why my funneral plans are in my will. If they do some stupid shit like put my body in the ground then they don't get anything.
Also, glad to hear you admit your preachers are liers.
At least the the part about the answering fundie being ignorant is correct. I see no reason why any atheist should have a church service. In fact, unless he was a member of the church, most churches wouldn't agree to it, either. There are such things as secular memorials, you know.
Okay...ummm...there is usually only a church service if the atheist didn't specifically request not to have one, and the family decided to have one.
I would assume that most atheists would steer clear of the church, however, and would not bother dragging in a priest to babble out random Bible verses that would do nothing but piss off the deceased were he to hear them.
I'm planing to have a sky burial . In my back garden.
(I did want to be placed aboard a burning skiff in full pirate regalia and sent off down the Thames, but apparently they river authorities don't like you to launch fireships anymore.)
Not going to say anything about the user name.....
As far as funerals go, if there is a Christian funeral, it's usually done because the family demanded a Christian funeral. Somehow that's supposed to make up for the last 40 years of atheism or something.
I've seen the arguments in numerous families. The rational family members usually just give in.
My father-in-law had a service, though it was in the funeral home and not in a church. Afterward, he wasn't 'dumped in the ground' as you so ineloquently put it. He was cremated. His ashes are in our kitchen hutch. He was afraid of cemeteries and the dead, so did not want to be buried.
We have a choice too, asshat.
Also: David B., that's actually kind of cool. I had never heard of that before. :)
Feel that Christian Love!
I have not revoked my membership in the Swedish Church for this reason; I want a church funeral. I don't believe in the God bit, but I like the ritual. It's a nice goodbye, a closure to life. I might change my mind later on, I hope to live another 40-odd years before I die.
You can be good without believing in God, ya know. You don't sound particularly good, to me...
“Question: When an Atheist dies, do they get a funeral service or do they just get dumped in the ground?”
“Ignorant fundie's answer: Church service usually and the poor preacher has to say a load of crap about how good the person was and how they are now resting (yeah right)...”
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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