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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Cringe. Imagine being non-religious and then these cunts start worshipping your dead child.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

That's probably not a popular opinion here, but: parents do not have a right to their child. If the child was cool with this, then that is the important part (and from what I read I'd guess he would be).

Let's posit it the other way around: a deeply religious pair of parents raises a kid that ends up being strongly anti-religion and comes to some "fame" due to that. Would you describe those celebrating that kid as "cunts" as well? And if not: why?

And no, I'm not religious myself and think a lot of that stuff is stupid and much of it is dangerous, but "those parents deserve better" is an argument that's used in exactly the opposite way in other areas: to oppress kids that don't "submit to the norm" that their parents think are best.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

His parents may not have been religious, but they supported their son's choice of faith, and he took it seriously. If I were them I wouldn't be offended by this. If they are offended, they can get over it, this was their son's faith.