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PassingFair

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4. My father was raised in Scotland and I have a lot of relatives there...

Reply to trotsky (Original post)

Tue Sep 19, 2017, 04:18 PM

Sep 2017

He never talked to us kids about his atheism. He just didn't go to church with my mother and us on Sundays.
At 12, I deduced that I was an atheist, but we still didn't talk about it much.

Fast forward to my young adulthood, and one of my Scottish cousins was over for a visit.
We got to talking about religion, and I sheepishly admitted to him that I was an atheist.

He told me he was too, that we "all" were. I had never felt so comfortable and accepted in my non-belief!

What a relief to realize that my stoic nature and outlook on life had BACKGROUND!

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Majority of Scots say they are 'not religious' [View all] trotsky Sep 2017 OP

Had to get all the way to the end, but there was the expected backbend. Iggo Sep 2017 #1

"Just because people aren't going to church, and say they aren't religious..." trotsky Sep 2017 #2

Yeah! They're just trying to be cool. Everybody knows being an atheist is really cool, man. Iggo Sep 2017 #3

My father was raised in Scotland and I have a lot of relatives there... PassingFair Sep 2017 #4

Whisky can make people say things. guillaumeb Sep 2017 #5

Wow, really? trotsky Sep 2017 #6

Have you no sense of humor? guillaumeb Oct 2017 #9

Yeah, no religion... yallerdawg Oct 2017 #12

That is religious bigotry. trotsky Oct 2017 #17

File this under "humor" and: yallerdawg Oct 2017 #18

Why would I file it under "humor"? trotsky Oct 2017 #19

Here is bigotry. yallerdawg Oct 2017 #23

But you did none of those. trotsky Oct 2017 #24

"Do to others as you would have them do to you ... Mariana Oct 2017 #31

Yep. Sadly that seems to be more the rule than the exception when it comes to the religious. n/t trotsky Oct 2017 #33

"It's just a joke, bro!" trotsky Oct 2017 #15

Fantastically biased and arrogant dismissal. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #7

No true Scotsman would drink "whisky". Act_of_Reparation Oct 2017 #34

Are whisky and whiskey not identical? guillaumeb Oct 2017 #36

No, they are. Act_of_Reparation Oct 2017 #37

A nice reponse nevertheless. eom guillaumeb Oct 2017 #38

Perhaps eating haggis leads to such thinking. guillaumeb Oct 2017 #8

A statistic about Scotland: guillaumeb Oct 2017 #10

Couple things Cuthbert Allgood Oct 2017 #20

And very few black Scots, if census numbers are correct. guillaumeb Oct 2017 #25

Your point being what, pray tell? Act_of_Reparation Oct 2017 #32

Make of it what you will. guillaumeb Oct 2017 #35

But if 72.4% claim to be not religious, guillaumeb Oct 2017 #11

You can belong to a religion with being "religious" marylandblue Oct 2017 #13

True. An excellent observation. guillaumeb Oct 2017 #14

Sorry you got shot down with that angle, too. trotsky Oct 2017 #16

I believe that I could write your responses for you. guillaumeb Oct 2017 #26

Aw, I'm sorry I hurt your feelings... trotsky Oct 2017 #27

BINGO!!! guillaumeb Oct 2017 #28

I'm glad you are enjoying humiliating yourself! trotsky Oct 2017 #29

But I thought we were biologically programmed for religion. Act_of_Reparation Oct 2017 #21

Well of course we are. trotsky Oct 2017 #22

It would be interesting how many of those people believe themselves to be "spiritual" HopeAgain Oct 2017 #30