I can imagine the ceremony and what the atheists might say to the congregation;
I imagine that it would sound more like...
quote:
Once again we are gathered to mourn the lives lost to ignorance and fear. Again we count the harm done by the superstitious beliefs of the pig ignorant and glassy eyed.
We remember those whose lives were stolen by these acts of selfish delusion. We ache with profound sadness for those who remain and our guts churn as we taste their grief. We feel it because even though these were strangers to us they were also our kin. They were our brothers and sisters and they shared our desire for a chance to love a be loved. Not so much to ask really and yet such a heinous crime to deny. Torn from the world and from the lives of those who loved them.
Now I know that your first instinct is to say 'Let's go fuck a terrorist sideways up the goat ass right now' but I urge you to remember that hatred is a burden and that you do not have to hate something to be against it. You just have to understand it.