Dear abby: easter and apostasy

[lemonsharks]

DEAR ABBY: Easter is a day to be thankful for Christ that our sins are forgiven. Opinionated atheists at the dinner table distract from the meaning of the celebration. Is it wrong on Easter Sunday to exclude relatives who no longer practice the Christian faith? — SAVED IN MINNESOTA

DEAR SAVED: Before making up your mind, ask yourself, “What would Jesus do?”

Comments

[cereta]

Yah. I do not mind the odd atheist-oriented comment from friends, any more than I assume they mind the odd religious comment from me (although mine tend to be more descriptive, like, "Yeah, Catholics don't even believe in the whole Rapture thing, and you could sell me on Trump as the Anti-Christ"), but if someone started talking about invisible sky daddies at my frickin' Easter dinner, I'd be pretty annoyed.

It reminds me of when there was a movement to call people who rejected all supernatural beliefs "brights," and a friend said she couldn't understand why anyone would object to that. Like...you genuinely can't understand why a theist would object to a word commonly used to describe someone as smarter than average being used to describe people who believed differently than you do? Seriously?