magebird:

corpseheiress:

If you have suffered a tragedy and someone says, “you’re in my prayers” with sincerity, and you respond with some egotistical shit about being atheist you are an emotionally inept moron.

For real though, like think about it. If someone is religious, there’s really no kinder sentiment they can express than appealing to the highest power they know for your recovery. Whether or not you think it “works” is irrelevant— the kindness is absolutely real.

That only works up to a point, in my mind. If it’s someone who has no idea the person they’re speaking to is an atheist, okay, fine, no problem. Accept the concern in the way it’s meant and thank them.

But if it’s someone who knows very well you’re an atheist, then they can keep their platitudes to things that are actually relevant to the atheist’s life.  Bearing in mind, too, that the atheist is probably not at their best, in any sense. Bringing up religion in that scenario is an asshole-ish thing to do, especially if the person was formerly religious, and still has issues relating to that.