Inlaws and Outlaws

Oct 25, 2005 00:10

Over Christmas dinner one year, I told my entire extended family of my atheism. My uncle Karl - very much the proper Christian - was shocked speechless in mid-passing of the ham. Noting the suspended plate of succulent pig-flesh, and seeing an opportunity to further discomfit my inlaws, I added "...and I'm a vegetarian too ( Read more... )

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Mreh anonymous December 14 2005, 09:38:00 UTC
This comment is a month and a half too-late, i had to commiserate.
Ahem.
Raised in an umber-Catholic liberal household.
Am libertarian.
Am Atheist with Mystic leanings
Am not heterosexual.

i feel your pain, though i eat dead animals.

~ j

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Re: Mreh unmaker December 14 2005, 17:26:36 UTC
I thought I leaned mystically once, but it turned out to be an altogether mundane sort of lean. Imagine my disappointment. And who're you, my phantom consonant?

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