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Grave doubts

William Crawley | 13:58 UK time, Friday, 29 August 2008

Patsy McGarry writes: 'It appears there may be nowhere in Co Donegal where someone who is openly an atheist can be buried.'

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  • 1. At 5:57pm on 29 Aug 2008, petermorrow wrote:



    Maybe the answer is the 'privatisation' of atheism.

    I mean, I have no objections to people being atheists, but I really think they should keep their (lack of) faith out of public view.


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  • 2. At 6:08pm on 29 Aug 2008, PeterKlaver wrote:

    Somehow I can't help thinking that petermorrows post is just slightly silly flame baiting.

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  • 3. At 6:16pm on 29 Aug 2008, petermorrow wrote:


    Sorry to here that you can't help it PeterK, but maybe the alternative interpretation is a 'tongue firmly in cheek' p-take on the privatisation of religion malarkey I hear regularly.

    Then again come to think of it would it count in the 'find a way to make a point' test you gave me, or is my comment too offensive?




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  • 4. At 6:24pm on 29 Aug 2008, PeterKlaver wrote:

    I see, it was just silly flame baiting then.

    But don't worry, I'm not that easily offended. :)

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  • 5. At 6:32pm on 29 Aug 2008, petermorrow wrote:


    PeterK

    It's in the same category as my comments on the supernatural weight loss thread.

    Anyway as for 'flame baiting', why would a tongue in cheek comment provoke an angry response?

    An Ulster comedian once had an appropriate catch phrase - "It's a cracker!"


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  • 6. At 01:02am on 30 Aug 2008, peterJhenderson wrote:

    This is the same silly nonsense were graveyards are actually segregated (something I hadn't realised until recently) between Protestants and Catholics. Personally, I couldn't care less who I was buried next to and what religion (or lack there of) they were. As Davy Dunseith often says, "You're a long time dead". Quite correct Davy.

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  • 7. At 05:34am on 30 Aug 2008, MarcusAureliusII wrote:

    It seems to me as a lifelong atheist that a true atheist doesn't care where his or her body is burried after death or for that matter if it is burried at all. Once I'm dead, that will be someone else's problem anyway.

    Here lies Marcus Arelius II

    He Came, He Saw, He Blogged.

    I Blog, therefore I am :-)

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  • 8. At 3:06pm on 01 Sep 2008, Bernards_Insight wrote:

    Good point, why should an atheist care where he's buried?

    He's gone, and, were he correct, any meaning his life might have had is also gone too, so he has no need to worry about primitive supernaturalism. it'll not effect the worms appetite, i wouldn't think

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  • 9. At 3:06pm on 01 Sep 2008, Bernards_Insight wrote:

    "I Blog, therefore I am :-)"


    ahaha, very good...Bloggito, Ergo Sum

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  • 10. At 10:18am on 02 Sep 2008, smasher-lagru wrote:

    I think the funniest bit is the presumption in Derry that an atheist should be buried with the protestants.

    Of course if humanists want their own graveyards they should create them - where is Brian McClinton and his shovel when you need them - though based on their other services I suspect they would be very pricey burials.

    But of course that's not what they want - they would want to do away with religious graveyards - that's the sort of pluralism they tend to want.

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  • 11. At 10:32am on 02 Sep 2008, gveale wrote:

    Smasher

    I put some comments arguing that Catholic belief in the Real Presence was rational on the PZ Myers thread. I would appreciate it if you could give them a glance, to make sure I haven't totally misrepresented your beliefs.

    GV

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