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NeoGreen

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Wed Aug 31, 2016, 08:20 AM Aug 2016

Someone Made a Sign for Religious People Outside a Memorial Service [View all]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/08/28/someone-made-a-sign-for-religious-people-outside-a-memorial-service/?ref_widget=popular&ref_blog=danthropology&ref_post=conservative-columnist-quits-after-neil-degrasse-tyson-embarrassed-him


Someone Made a Sign for Religious People Outside a Memorial Service

Dealing with the death of a loved one is hard enough. But it’s so much worse when people, with all the best of intentions, tell you that it happened “for a reason” or that the deceased is in “a better place.” Atheists don’t buy into those tropes.

According to a user on Reddit, when a friend’s husband recently died, she didn’t want to deal with any more of those comments. She joked about how might just put up a sign asking people not to say those things.

And when the Redditor attended the memorial service on Friday, this is what he saw outside:

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