You have an odd idea of what a Christian believes my little antagonistic friend. I don't have my own personal deity.
Of the nine folks who will be at my Christmas dinner, only two are atheists. The rest are Lutherans. Majority rules at dinner, especially on Christmas day.
Umm, Lutherans are Christians, it's not a different religion or anything. And what are you atheists celebrating? Non God day?
I've never spoken of my beliefs to my nephew, and will not unless asked, and then only after he is an adult. His mother and father are, and should be, his source of such information.
Thank God.
If anyone asks, I can add grace in French, Russian, and Spanish, using a traditional blessing from each culture. I've done it before.
So it's you who talks to yourself, not your nephew. LOL
Imagine, a grown man talking to himself in front of others and asking the thin air to "bless" his meal. C'mon dude, don't be a sissy, just dig in, get it before your fellows get it. After your dead it won't matter and you will get the most! LOL
You have a strange idea of what an atheist is, my antagonistic Freeper. I don't care what others believe.
You certainly do. You may pretend to yourself that you don't, but it is the ONE thing you hold most dear and long to tell everyone else who doesn't already know.
"Hi,,,I'm Mineral man, and I'm an atheist with no God."
You can kid yourself, but your tag-line gives away your priorities. You DO care what others think, and your tag-line is an open invitation to discuss it, the most important thing in your life is a non belief. It's sad.
Please pardon the interruption of your pointless browbeating of MineralMan's beliefs, but it is an open forum after all. What I find sad is your attempt to assess the entire value of MM's life and beliefs based upon a tagline (one which, frankly, I read as a snarky jab at the self-righteous religious types who haunt the crevo threads...that's right, I'm lookin' at you Protagoras). Give it a rest already.