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- MacEnvy, on 10/26/2007, -4/+3914. Prophet
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -10/+371How to lure kids into your religion:
1. Threaten no more presents at christmas.
2. Pull a tantrum.
3. ??? - Snoods, on 10/10/2007, -20/+356He's Mormon. I'm in the exact same situation, I was born into a Mormon family, however I am secretly an atheist. I am 18 and not in a position to move out yet. And if my mom new what I think, I would be kicked out of the house.
- ropers, on 10/10/2007, -10/+329The lady has no clue about the history of Christmas. It was originally called Jule and it was a heathen winter solstice fest. When Christianity came along they couldn't eradicate this (and other) time-honored tradition(s), so they did what can now be called the Microsoft manoeuvre:
1. Embrace (the winter solstice celebrations).
2. Extend (them by adding Christian mythology).
3. Extinguish (the original Jule). - toetagger, on 10/22/2007, -14/+332Mom, Dad... have your Kool Ade..
This is why most atheists in the US pretend to be religious. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+265when i told my mom she just called me a heathen.
so i promptly started doing a pagan dance...boy that didn't go over well.
we laugh about it now. well, i do.
she's still pissed.
/that was 26 years ago - MattB123, on 10/13/2007, -3/+196My mom took it a lot better, thank God! ;)
- Subterfug, on 10/10/2007, -10/+162Don't you want presents for Christmas, Michael? That's what Christmas is about. I can't give you any presents anymore if you're an atheist. Nope, sorry. No can do. You can only get presents if you're a Christian.
Then people think the only extremists in the world are muslim. >.> - ryancalderoni, on 10/10/2007, -3/+143"Dude a lot can happen, you can think."
- senorcool, on 10/10/2007, -1/+133I love how she chose the whole "You aren't getting any Christmas presents" instead of "You are going to Hell" approach.
- supermajic, on 10/22/2007, -5/+125Oh man what a ***** bitch.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -7/+127It reminds me more of the other dozen times this story was on digg.
- Jimgress, on 10/26/2007, -16/+119no presents at christmas!?!
some AWESOME parenting skills there.
This kid looks like he's 18 or something, why would he be getting presents still..isn't he a bit too old for that *****? - seeversjm, on 10/10/2007, -19/+114I'm digging this just because I want it to make it to the front page so I can see all the comment wars that this starts! Go Digg!
- angel0, on 10/26/2007, -7/+100Danm, now how the ***** do i tell my mom? I'm scared ...
- AnimalTaglits, on 10/10/2007, -3/+95I love how she goes off on him, that's what Jesus would do.
- justinkimball, on 10/10/2007, -7/+97It's absolutely amazing how few people know the actual origins of Christmas. And the best part is, when you actually tell someone who is "religious", they look at you like you're crazy.
Christmas has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity. It's a pagan holiday, that was hijacked by Christianity, that has subsequently hijacked by commercialism.
Another thing that people fail to realize is that there is a pretty good chance Jesus was black. - Leo21k, on 10/10/2007, -3/+90I pretend to be catholic, less drama that way.
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/10/2007, -1/+86Father Mike's Hard Kool Ade.
- iDiigg, on 10/10/2007, -2/+82The funniest part is:
You are going to get nothing for cristhmas.
Okaaaaaaaaaaay.
pause(10 seconds)
Not its not okayaaay - clickwir, on 10/26/2007, -3/+82oh the ironing!
- Mitchl, on 10/10/2007, -3/+81And if you are Catholic, you don't have to drink Kool Ade, you can actually drink the hard stuff.
- Kyrgizion, on 10/10/2007, -5/+68Glad to have grown up in a family of atheists, in a rural area no less.
- 5xSTUN, on 10/10/2007, -2/+61All great truths begin as blasphemies.
-- George Bernard Shaw - BigDelite, on 10/10/2007, -4/+62That is what Christmas is about! gifts? Hmm, maybe she should WWJD that situation.
- romanpike, on 10/10/2007, -2/+59My mom just cried a lot and gave me the "you don't mean that. I have questioned my faith before..." speech.
- jumanji69, on 10/10/2007, -1/+57http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCODIhAXbQM
- watcht, on 10/10/2007, -3/+55***** im happy my mom aint one of those heavy christian soccer moms. any one else notice the dad not giving two ***** lol
- TheFinaleofSeem, on 10/10/2007, -6/+57I used to be LDS, broke the news to my parents, and while they didn't like it, they took it well enough, although I did get some nudging from time to time. Not all Mormons are created equal. In fact, I'd wager a good amount that the bitch mother in this video is a Utard. You don't see nearly as much of that outside of Utah. Being in the religious majority has a tendency to make people snobby.
- FunkyWitDaSysTm, on 10/10/2007, -3/+53having the balls like this kid did should be a help. be nice, don't be condescending or indignant, and expect that they may react badly anyhow. it's like coming out of the closet (trust me, i've done both). some parents flip like this kid's parents, and others just say "meh".
good luck. - resplence, on 10/10/2007, -0/+43Atheists in a rural area = satanic rituals involving beheading of goats and drinking blood.
- piznut, on 10/10/2007, -7/+50Atheism a universal truth, arrived at through rationalization. Conversely, the belief in a god requires abandonment of reason and rationality. This woman is acting in an unreasonable and irrational manner. Par for the course I'd say.
Atheism an individual realization, and not a club. If a self-proclaimed atheist is acting like a tool...its on him, not me or any other atheist. That said, I am a compassionate person so I might feel bad for that person in the same way that I would feel bad for a drunken idiot stumbling around on a public street. - chyperbola, on 10/10/2007, -0/+43I'm 19 and my dad still gives me presents from "Santa." It rocks. ^^
- OGTL, on 10/10/2007, -3/+45I remember this video coming out, then I was born, and then the Vietnam war ending..
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+43Nothing quite like getting you child BACK into religion like promising to go to church EVERY MORNING. Yeah, that'd make me want to get back into the faith (...if I ever had been in the first place).
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -17/+57I know I am going to get dug down for this one, but athiests do to Christians exactly what they claim evangelical neocons do to Islamic extremists. Find the radical, crazy ones and paint them as the norm in order to instill fear in others. This has nothing to do with Christianity. This woman has obvious interrelational problems and probably has more worry about the looks she'll get from her friends when they find out her son is an athiest than she does for the state of her son's soul. It is clear she's incapable of communicating the truth of the faith. Instead, she's terrorizing him with threats of no Christmas presents.
However, understand this, this is NOT the message of Christianity, this is just someone using Christianity as ammunition in a troubled family enviroment. (Commonly known as spiritual abuse.) - iziizi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+38i have never seen that video before and ***** me she is a crazy bitch.
if there is a hell, she will be going there regardless. - Mitchl, on 10/10/2007, -3/+40So are some athiests ashamed of folks in their non-religion as I am of this lady supposedly in mine?
- MacEnvy, on 10/14/2007, -3/+40Do you think an ultra-religious southern black mom would have had a better reaction? I don't.
- theodenking, on 10/10/2007, -0/+36Maybe being an atheist isn't the most important thing in their lives, they don't want to have to handle the hassle.
- N256, on 10/10/2007, -4/+40I recently told my parents I didn't believe in god anymore (17, Mormon in Utah). They were a pretty surprised/angry, weeks later they cooled down.
- Pssdoff, on 10/10/2007, -2/+373:1 odds that someone posts "The Godwarrior"
- Meccabilly, on 10/10/2007, -4/+38Im afraid it doesn't work like that. Being athiest isn't like being Christian or Jewish - it's an absense of religion - Like an absense of Mental illness.
- Ungh, on 10/10/2007, -1/+34@Timusca: You are right on the first part, but you neglect that Christmas has nothing left to do with Christianity anymore, it has everything to do with capitalism! It's all about spending money and racking up debt! So, worship Santa Claus and blow all your cash and leave religion out of it... You said so!
- itslifeasusual, on 10/10/2007, -11/+43As a Christian let me go ahead and apologize for the crazy ho and say MOST of us are not like her so please don't compare. On a side note I don't think she knows anything about Christian theology or love for that matter.
- dudefather, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33telling an athest that they are going to hell isnt going to do much, you might as well say that they will be struck down by zeus
- an0nymous, on 10/10/2007, -3/+35You are doing the right thing. Wait until you are in some measure independent. I know the temptation to reveal yourself is probably crushing at times, but hang tight and get set up first.
- bitt3n, on 10/10/2007, -19/+51of course he was black. why do you think his daddy skipped town soon as he found out he knocked up the ho
- rootnik, on 10/10/2007, -2/+33If somebody can get this kid's address, I'll send him a Christmas present or 2. Imagine the leet things he would get from the geeks @ digg.com.
- watcht, on 10/10/2007, -5/+36Tell it like it is whats the worse that could happen a wooden spoon swung at you? Injuries pass but confidence in yourself that ***** is for life. Word o the wise: prolly best to tell outside of the kitchen from the source of her power
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