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published by Fedquip 1 year 1 month ago • 2083 views
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This mom seems visibly upset that her child has become an Atheist.
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I LOVE that she brings up christmas. After all, what is god but Santa for adults?


written by budzos  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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She should forgive him.


written by deputydog  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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But he should never forgive her.


written by gorillaman  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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Religion and the family unit. There's nothing like cult pressure, is there?


written by old_spider  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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She's probably just concerned about the image of her family in the community and is really caught up in the image that atheists are not human and the filth of the earth. From her point of view, to be associated with that would suck bawls


written by bizinichi  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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Damn insane families >_>


written by DigitalDragon5000  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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we need a nsfw for this.


written by nontoxicglue  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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*nsfw


written by gorillaman  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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This video has been marked NSFW (called by gold star member gorillaman)


written by siftbot  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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She should sue Richard Dawkins for killing her sons soul.


written by deathcow  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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ROFLAMO, some people take things a bit too seriously...



written by bl968  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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LOL! Crazy ass jesus freaks.


written by lurgee  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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At least she's got her model-consumer loyalties straight.


written by bigbikeman  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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Jesus Christ is all about getting gifts for Christmas. Good to know.

Budzos - brilliant comment!


written by illeto  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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Such Christian behavior there. Bless her heart.


written by mlx  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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What a moron. No wonder he wanted to steer clear of religious people!


written by EMPIRE  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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Jeez, look how old he is. Of *course* he just stopped believing in God, that's how it works. When you're a child you take what people tell you at face value, but as you mature you learn to evaluate things critically and think for yourself. Then bam, one day you just stop believing in the tooth fairy. Ooops, I meant god.


written by coupland  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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What are you saying about the tooth fairy?


written by Fedquip  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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I'd like to point out that not all Christians (or any other religious folk) are like this. It's just the most extreme ones that come to attention. So please don't take examples like these as a meter for how all of them act. ;-)


written by Sylvester_Ink  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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^ Yeah, we've heard that before. Every day it becomes more evident that it's not just a few extremists that are like that.


written by SaNdMaN  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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My mom, a reverend's daughter, did very much the same thing. I hated church and she told me I could decide for myself (whether to go or not) after I was confirmed. The day I was confirmed was the last day I set foot in a church, 26 years ago. I do not miss that perfumy church smell at ALL. (Lutherans wear a lot of perfume, apparently).

Oh, and I told her I didn't want anything for Christmases after that, and she told me "Tough, you're getting something anyway!". I was then punished with socks and Aplets and Cotlets (mmm...) for many a Christmas after.


written by Fletch  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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lol it's hilarious because they way she is treating her son's wishes is quite unchristian, just my two cents


written by Superganja23  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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My personal take on this situation is that the mom is insecure in her own beliefs (like many Christians) and finds her son's ability to reject them outright incredibly troubling because it shakes her fragile grip on a faith that is maintained more by groupthink than actual belief.

That said, I feel like this is a staged production. Usually I don't cry "fake" at random internet vids, but something just doesn't ring true here.


written by detlev409  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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agree with everything detlev said. also cheers to ant, our token downvoter.


written by djsunkid  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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I agree, it does seem staged. But what do I know, I'm just a humble atheist.


written by HistNerd  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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djsunkid
agree with everything detlev said. also cheers to ant, our token downvoter.

The only pattern I've ever been able to discern in his otherwise random downvoting is that he seems to be a hardcore Christian.


written by nibiyabi  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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I love it how dad silently disagrees


written by don_vicente  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists.


written by MINK  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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Is this that "Christian love" I keep hearing about?



written by PostMortem  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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sounds like a genuine raging Mom to me...


written by winkler1  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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every time someone says there's not god, an angel loses his wings


written by looris  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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My Mom had a similarily reaction when I told her (of course, I was a chicken-shit and didn't actually tell here until I was 42:)). She gave me the whole confirmed nonsense also etc. etc.
I was actually invovled in the church most of my youth, an alter boy and everything.
Still I didn't go to catholic school like they did.


written by Spoon_Gouge  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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"You wanna know there's no God? Well then you're getting nothing for Christmas!"

LOL God hast forsaken me with underwear before, and now he hast left me nothing. Where is my God now!?!


written by arrendek  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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LOL God hast forsaken me with underwear before, and now he hast left me nothing. Where is my God now!?!

haha

You win the comment thread, we can shut this one down.


written by Fedquip  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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I hate fuckin atheists. im sorry but i firmly believe half the kids at my school are atheists because thats what the "Cool" kids do. it makes me fuckin sick. this kid looks exactly the same as every fuckin one of them. some punk ass bitch trying to be in by denouncing God.


written by White  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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the look on that pompous-ass face of his makes me want to beat the shit out of him, talkin to his mother like that.


written by White  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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upvote for the poor mother.


written by White  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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I disagree with White.

All the kid did was tell his mom he didn't believe in God. The mother obviously does not care to learn about her child so she yells (sorry, screams) at him.


written by Fedquip  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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"I hate fuckin atheists"
-White

Then don't fuck atheists!!! DUH! [Always be sure to use a condom ;-) ]

However:

"I hate fuckin Jews"

"I hate fuckin Christians"

"I hate fuckin Muslims"

"I hate fuckin.... etc, etc."

I doubt you would say that you "hate" ALL the people in these groups. (I don't know maybe you would?) Why then is it OK to say "I hate fuckin atheists"? What is it about atheists as a group that makes it permissible to hate them?

Just wondering if you'd thought about it?



written by PostMortem  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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Why do you hate people, don't you love all of gods creatures? You hate free thinking. You hate people who think differently to you. You are a biggot. I was brought up roman catholic. From the age of four to being confirmed I had to pretend to believe. Do you know what that is like?
I am glad I left it behind. Thank god


written by NickyP  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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Haha, took a while before some kid posted something awesome,... and there it is! yeeehaa!


But yeah, all the kids at my school were smarter than me, too, White... luckily, I'm tenacious.


written by bamdrew  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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White, I agree with you in the sense that those who make a choice only because other chellovecks do are being untrue to themselves. You can't possibly come to a conclusion about such a huge question of human existence by blindly following one crowd or another/being indoctrinated from a young age and to say you hate atheists in general because of the doings of a small percentage of pseudo-this or that speaks volumes of how you group/label people by taking extreme examples and deducing that all of them must be like that. Discovery comes from within...most atheists will tell you it was a long, gradual and decidedly eventual/inevitable outcome, if you research all available knowledge on the subject in earnest. Viddy well, brother...


written by AnimalsForCrackers  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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I was brought up in a household that was pretty religious; I've rolled back to being somewhat religious personally. If I have kids I hope they'll have a certain amount of faith, but if they don't, I can't see myself shouting at them over it (or uttering Christmas threats)


written by calvados  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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White you have some serious issues.



written by grspec  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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This is what my very catholic mom really wanted to say when I told her I was an atheist

Luckily, she is a bit more sympathetic than this woman in the vid and actually did do the whole "forgiveness" thing.


written by pass.the.grog.  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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im sorry. i came off a little vague. i meant i only hate punk ass atheists like i think this kid is. a lot of my friends are atheists and as long as we dont discuss the existence of God, im fine with it. he just seems to me to be one of those stupid kids. you guys are probably right about the mother, though. i agree that she did overreact probably just because she wanted to feel she had some influence over her child's life. no offense, AFC, but the boy agreed with his mother about the fact that "all of a sudden there is no god." he said a lot could happen, but he never finished his thought.


written by White  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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+1 to white for having the balls to come back and back himself up.

As for the punk kid. It takes a lot of balls to "come out of the closet", sure he lost this screaming match, but what do you expect from a 13 year old kid vs his mother.


written by Fedquip  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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postmortem, great reply to my dear twin Mr. White (the first one). hilarious. i do think that what white was trying to say was that half the kids this kids age that are atheists are only atheists because they think it makes them different. 5 years later (after they are done with college and dont have to worry about their image as much) they are back where they were, god fearing and all.

upvote for the argument against my brother.


written by Dignant_Pink  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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I suppose if that's white's objection, it's valid. Basing your outlook on fashion always earns my contempt.


written by budzos  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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I too, agree with Mr. White, though not necessarily with such vehemence. Atheistic groupthink abounds on the net these days, especially with the celebrity status that Dawkins has achieved.

I have no more a problem with an intelligent and reasoned atheist anymore than I have with an intelligent and reasoned Muslim or Wiccan. I've known and enjoyed the company of at least a couple of such people(for some reason there are very few Muslims in Tennessee or Ohio), but this new breed of "me-too" atheist drives me batty. If you want to combat the vocal minority of the religious right, I'll back you, but there's a movement towards violently denigrating any and all who espouse a personal faith and I find that just about as ignorant as hard line fundamentalism.


written by detlev409  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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Do 'me-too' theists drive you batty as well? Because that's, like, all of them.


written by gorillaman  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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HILARIOUS...the comments in this thread are as funny as the video. This is awesome !


written by qruel  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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i thought "Whites" original comments were meant as a joke. but seeing his repost made me think twice...scary and ignorant


written by qruel  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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This is fake.

What's funny is, the first time I saw it, I thought the skinny kid was the woman talking and the fatass in the peach shirt living with his mother was the atheist...

Both hardcore religious folks and atheists can't wait to tell the world, and both think about God more than other people.




written by quantumushroom  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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I think the anger with most people (Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc...) is that their really is no reason why not to believe in God. People need proof of a lot of things. I for one believe in God, but don't take the bible literally. I mean, obviously something created the universal. Something caused the big bang. We evolved and so did many creatures, something kept us moving. Point being, I think the mother in the video be it fake or not, is that the reason is why not believe. I can live my whole life, and when I die I find out that God or heaven or whatever is not real. It would not be a waste, because it at least comforted me at times when I needed it, and made me stronger then most that have nothing or feel there is nothing helping them. Everything just seems to fit perfectly, let it be science, or an answer, but their will never be answer to what created everything (especially an atom).






written by Munchound  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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Atheist Groupthink?! Groupthink is what religion is all about...

Subpenas of emails from Jack Abramhoff reveal the following exchange from Michael Scanlon, former Tom DeLay aide

Consider one memo highlighted in a Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday that Scanlon, a former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, sent the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana to describe his strategy for protecting the tribe's gambling business. In plain terms, Scanlon confessed the source code of recent Republican electoral victories: target religious conservatives, distract everyone else, and then railroad through complex initiatives.

"The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees," Scanlon wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. "Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them." The brilliance of this strategy was twofold: Not only would most voters not know about an initiative to protect Coushatta gambling revenues, but religious "wackos" could be tricked into supporting gambling at the Coushatta casino even as they thought they were opposing it.

source


written by winkler1  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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confirmed.... does she believe her son is guaranteed a seat on some flight?


written by deathcow  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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Oh my science. This is the kind of stupidity and peer-pressure that religion thrives on. Bringing up christmas is just dumb, as presents and Jesus have absolutely nothing to do with each other (Like Easter and eggs -- or so the Hare Club for Men would have you believe).

What's the confirmation age in the states? 14-15? Would you truly be old enough to make a binding contract by that age? Not according to most countries, where you have to be an adult (18+) to make a contract.

It seems that Atheist is the new Gay.

"Have you tried not being an atheist..?" Heh.

While this may very well be faked, it's a dramatization of what many go through. And that's a bit frightening.


written by gwiz665  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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atheism is the new homosexuality! i love that analogy!


written by MINK  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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Actually, Gwiz, it's funny you should say that, because I think that analogy is much closer to the truth then most would believe, and I think it'll become more apparent with time.

The reason I say this is because I'm hearing more and more talk of Atheism being a 'phase' that teenagers go through and grow out of. Very similar to what worried parents would say to comfort themselves about their gay son/daughter.


written by conspiracy  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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By the way, if this is faked (I don't think it is, but you never know, I suppose), then it's an extremely realistic dramatization. My mother over-reacted the exact same way when I was a teenager.


written by conspiracy  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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my fake-sensor is not going off at all on this... my nutty deluded wenchbag sensor is tripping though


written by deathcow  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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quantumushroom, I think I'm falling for you


written by deputydog  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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Here's the compromise:

http://www.videosift.com/video/KITH-God-is-Dead

I tried to find the duplicate of this to no avail.


written by doremifa  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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I think the internet has really allowed other atheists to realize they are not alone and there is quite a large group of people who share similar feelings. Some may think people are doing it just to be popular but I was an atheist at around 10, I just didn't have a word to go with it and we didn't have the internet so I didn't know how many "others" there were. Are some kids doing it because it's rebellious? of course but that shouldn't belittle those who really are atheist.


written by grspec  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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This vid has the YouTube webcam folks stirred up:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=catholic+mom




written by dotdude  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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OK!

No! It's not ok, Michael!


ahahahah what a dumbass woman.


written by looris  | 1 year 1 month ago | CH
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Yep- Nothing like hostility, shouting and threats to get your point across to kids.

You could transcribe the part about Christmas gifts into a Simpsons episode and it'd be pretty funny.


written by RichTheNoun  | 1 year 2 weeks ago | CH
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My parents are in UCC, one of the most liberal protestant denominations, and they basically made me go to church until confirmation. They didn't ask whether I wanted to be confirmed. They just sent me there every week. I went to church but didn't utter most of the things we were instructed to utter together because I didn't see any good reason to do so. I kept my mouth shut during the songs etc. After a few years of that I think they took the hint.


written by jwray  | 11 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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*promote


written by dotdude  | 5 months 1 week ago |