@Farmageddon:

First of all, lol, a witch. Well, it's probably more strict than here then. Just say you had sex then. With a pagan or something :P

No, I don't think that's good enough, especially considerign that I'm a guy (double standards, I know). I'd have to say something like "I gave blow jobs for money", or "I had sex with a married woman pagan while her hsuband watched".

Anyway, I can't believe your ethically opposed to taking communion and yet you plan to tell something like this to your parents over phone, hang up and pretend it's okay. In my book thats a hell of a lot worse.

I't cowardly of me, but I wouldn't say it's worse then all the lying.

Ha, it would be fun, wouldn't it? But nah, I wasn't sugesting you to do that, it was just an example for the rest of that paragraph.

I'll save it as my Plan G, ahead of faking my own death.

I didn't phrase that well. What I meant is you can always say you haven't felt your connection with God for a while, and trying to get it back is something only you can do. Of course you should elaborate on that, have a bit of a backstory, etc.

I never even felt such a connection in the first place, so it would be an even biger lie.

Say you need to stop pretending and running away from this (frightening!) lack of His touch

You sure chose some creepy wording there.

Yeah, things are always so obvious in hindsight.

Tell me about it. This is what happens when you don't think long term.

nice you read my joke answer and not the other.

I have an idea though, Bring a jew/ismlamist/budhist girlfriend over ^^.

Sorry, for some reason I missed this one.

1 - To them that would sound like I'm joining what they call "protestant cults", which would still be bad.

2 - But the thing is that I genuenly don't belive in that, and I'd feel wrong taking communion (not to mention that at this point the ideea of sipping wine from the same spoon as a hundred other individuals doesn't appeal to me). Also, I don't fee lcomfortable telling a priest personal things about myeslf, especially thins that I may have done and don't even consider bad (masturbgating, sex outside of marriage, watching porn etc.).

That would make them uncomfortable, but I don't think that would help my situation in any way. I mean, coming out as an atheist, and revealing I'm dating a jew/muslim/buddhist. That would be like a double slap in the face.

Isn't Romania orthodox? I thought Orthodox celebrated Easter later...

@Farmageddon:

That sounds fun.

Especially if you're doing them at the same time, LOL.

What I mean is you feel it's wrong to go get communion if you don't believe it anymore, and aparently feel it's so bad you'd rather get into a whole lot of trouble to avoid it, yet you decide to tell your (very, very devouted) parents over phone your an atheist and hang up, point being that that's a much worse "offense". It'll cause much more pain and is a lot less "ethical". So if you can talk yourself into doing that, surelly you can talk yourself into just going there and eating some flour.

I just find the ideea of going to confession and getting communion disrespectful to the religion. I hold religion in contempt at the moment, but even I wouldn't go that far. It would be as bad as pretending to be a Muslim in order to get into Mecca.

Also, communion here means sipping wine from a spoon (that everybody uses BTW, which can't possibly be sanitary, one of the reasons why I don't wanna do it), and eating a little bot of bread.

Wait, if this is G and faking murder is E, waht's F?

Sorry, I mixed them up. Plan F is faking my own murder, while Plan E is faking my own kidnapping. There is no Plan G (yet).

I don't know, creepy wording seems to work with these people.

And sure you're an atheist, but you could use the same logic from the murder scenario: "See, I'm not a satanist, I'm just an atheist"

LOL, that should be taken into consideration.

I thought so too, and I was shocked when I talekd with a Catholic friend and learned that they're celebrating Easter this Sunday also. Some years they end up on the same days for Orthodox Christians too.

Just say this to them

"Hell is not a place you go, if you not a christian

it's the failure of your lifes greatest ambition

It's a bad decision to blindly follow any religion"

then you follow up "Before i decide what religion i am, i must do extensive research" then in about 6 months, tell them you dont believe in any religion.