• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    By all accounts, she really was a pretty awful person, but she did a lot on behalf of atheists. Ironically, her son became an evangelical.

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      11 months ago

      I was just thinking about her the other day. If I’m remembering this properly, her son stopped people from praying for her after her death (maybe at her funeral?) Saying something like: “don’t, she wouldn’t like that.”

      For some reason that stuck with me. It pops into my head every-once-and-a-while. I always wondered if he gave in to stop the harrasment, of if he really did believe