U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High

Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by Joof on Friday April 22, 2016 @04:22PM (#11552314)

This is going to sound really dumb, but it's how culture works so bear with me.

I'm nonreligious, I don't care to discuss it or think about religion as a part of my life, but it's okay if others want to be religious themselves.

Why don't I want to be labeled atheist? It's looked down upon and many hardcore atheists are exclusionary.

You know how when someone insists on it being GNU/Linux, but most people don't care? That's why I'm nonreligious (but technically atheist).

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Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by gregpilling on Friday April 22, 2016 @07:50PM (#11553359)

I used to tell people that I was an atheist, and my wife told me I was more of a "fundamentalist atheist" because I wanted everyone else to be too.

Now I call myself a "Reformed Fundamentalist Atheist" because it captures that I don't care anymore (reformed), and it sounds enough like a real religion that people seem to accept it as one.

In the spirit of many of the good things on the internet, the Reformed Fundamentalist Atheist church (RFA) is of course an open source religion, under the MIT license :)

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Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by Joof on Saturday April 23, 2016 @08:00PM (#11557943)

Lol, sounds legit.

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