Army wife. Atheist - Born OK the first time. Psychologist. Liberal. Pro-choice. Southern.

My husband, M, just returned from yet another deployment.

For some reason, the public thinks that the military is full of uber religious super right-winged people. Here are my honest thoughts about being married to a Soldier while being an independent liberal educated female Atheist.

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28th January 2012

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from—her—to—eternity: sanityscraps: dominoblox: I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE DO THAT My friend’s dad just died recently. He wasn’t the most religious man in the world, not by any means. Everyone was saying, “God has an angel now!” or “He’s watching over you!” Do people realize how that is NOT comforting for anyone? It’s like saying, “Your grief doesn’t matter because he is still technically existing in some tangible sense!” It…just isn’t right. I might be an atheist, but I could care less about any faith you follow. But when you impose some faith onto a dead person or onto their relatives just because YOU follow that faith, it doesn’t make anyone feel any goddamn better. That loved one is still gone, and can’t be seen or heard or felt or hugged or touched or kissed again. If Eric ever dies, which is something I hope to never have happen any time soon, he is gone forever to me. I don’t want anyone to tell me he is watching me from Heaven, because that is insulting to me and his memory. To me, his only remaining presence is in the atmosphere and whatever grass his body is feeding. The atmosphere is the sum of every inhalation and exhalation of every living thing on this planet. And to me, that’s magical. Not God, not a Heaven where every dead Christian person is alive, or anything like that. Do not impose religion onto the dead. ^ This. And your writing about Eric here was rather heartbreaking, to tell the truth. It’s especially infuriating when you know that the deceased person isn’t a Christian. My Atheist grandpa had a pastor lead his funeral bc his mother was a primitive baptist and she threw a colossal hissy fit when we weren’t going to have a religious dude there. Anyway, the dumb religious man starts this lecture about how no one loves my grandpa more than god. My mother’s youngest sibling stood up from the family area and told the dumbass that that sure as hell wasn’t true and he needed to move on to something else. The mostly un-religious crowd applauded.

from—her—to—eternity:

sanityscraps:

dominoblox:

I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE DO THAT

My friend’s dad just died recently. He wasn’t the most religious man in the world, not by any means. Everyone was saying, “God has an angel now!” or “He’s watching over you!”

Do people realize how that is NOT comforting for anyone? It’s like saying, “Your grief doesn’t matter because he is still technically existing in some tangible sense!”

It…just isn’t right. I might be an atheist, but I could care less about any faith you follow. But when you impose some faith onto a dead person or onto their relatives just because YOU follow that faith, it doesn’t make anyone feel any goddamn better. That loved one is still gone, and can’t be seen or heard or felt or hugged or touched or kissed again. If Eric ever dies, which is something I hope to never have happen any time soon, he is gone forever to me. I don’t want anyone to tell me he is watching me from Heaven, because that is insulting to me and his memory.

To me, his only remaining presence is in the atmosphere and whatever grass his body is feeding.

The atmosphere is the sum of every inhalation and exhalation of every living thing on this planet. And to me, that’s magical. Not God, not a Heaven where every dead Christian person is alive, or anything like that.

Do not impose religion onto the dead.

^ This. And your writing about Eric here was rather heartbreaking, to tell the truth.

It’s especially infuriating when you know that the deceased person isn’t a Christian.

My Atheist grandpa had a pastor lead his funeral bc his mother was a primitive baptist and she threw a colossal hissy fit when we weren’t going to have a religious dude there. Anyway, the dumb religious man starts this lecture about how no one loves my grandpa more than god. My mother’s youngest sibling stood up from the family area and told the dumbass that that sure as hell wasn’t true and he needed to move on to something else. The mostly un-religious crowd applauded.

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