What Can an Atheist Tell a Child With a Dead Dog?

Can an atheist worldview offer any comfort to a child grieving after the death of her dog? Here are my thoughts on the subject, as an atheist and as someone who has lost a dog in the past.

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• dog
• pets
• god
• religion
• death
• children
• atheism
• animal
• cat
• grief

[TheDrewManXD]

as an atheist THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!

[stevelikes2curse]

@TheDrewManXD Thanks!

[KspekEvo]

atheism is not a worldview.

[stevelikes2curse]

@KspekEvo Fair enough, though I think that's coming dangerously close to splitting hairs. It's a position, a conclusion, a point of view, rather than a worldview. Though, now that I think about it, I didn't say atheism itself was a worldview; I merely referred to an "atheist worldview." Surely you acknowledge that such a worldview exists, and that many (if not all) atheists hold it.

[KspekEvo]

@stevelikes2curse i understand, but not beleiving something can not be a world view. is lack of beleif in leprechauns a world view? not at all, now there are things that can result ina world view that stem from atheism, you can be a secular humanist or buddhist, but to say a lack of belief in something is a world view is just not accurate. i didnt mean anything malicous, just wanted to point it out :)

[stevelikes2curse]

@KspekEvo No worries! I didn't take it as malicious.

[hnbbs]

I told my kids that the Republicans killed our dog and sent it to hell.

[alliaskis]

You got through a video without swearing. You owe the No Cussing Jar a quarter.

[Nloveru]

I could not agree more!

[lifeschild1]

Birth is suffering; from the moment of life's inception we are dying. We and all living things are comprised of trillions of living microscopic organisms, which in themselves are self-entities. Every moment they live, reproduce and eventually die within our bodies. Our mitochondrial components power the cellular structures of cellular production. When they stop replicating they eventually die and so shall we die. BUT...The joyfulness here is that: "We will return again".

[lifeschild1]

"Where we once came from is where we will once again return to!" Life and energy on this earth continues as long as the earth and we are here. Our family, friends and yes even animal spirits remain here surrounding us always. Protecting us and being with us. You felt this. That Ora is here awaiting to enter the bodies of newly born children as products of the cellular biological unification of genetic material at birth.

[LloydChristmas777]

@Android369, LOL, genius explanation.

[LloydChristmas777]

Very deep and interesting thoughts on the subject of death. Thanks for sharing.

The bad thing about religious explanations is that it's a lie. The good thing is that it's psychologically comforting to the child and the child's mental state would likely be more healthy despite the lie.

I personally would be as honest as possible to my child, and do it with the most hope and happiness as possible given the circumstances.

[enticed2zeitgeist]

Damn atheists doing that "questioning" thing again. 

[MrPlanx]

Good video. Absolutely children should always be told the truth.

[KspekEvo]

@BelieveNoGod then why call atheism a world view?