So a little over two years ago, a major mother figure in my life died of cancer. She was the assistant principal of my middle school and she really looked after me throughout that really tough time in my life. She'd talk to me all the time, eat lunch with me, make me feel cared for etc. She was really important to me.

I mentioned her today in therapy with my school T because I was talking about my anxiety concerning time and had said something like I wish I had 30 mins back to spend with her. Now school T is either Christian or Jewish which is fine... except when we try to talk about this. She tries to then talk to me about what my assistant principal was doing now and then told me I am too eager to adopt the idea that when people abandon me, they are gone forever. Maybe that is true, but this is different. She didn't abandon me. She died. I'm an atheist and I don't believe in an afterlife. I believe that once someone is gone, they are gone. I've told her this and she just can't seem to not give me some religious rhetoric in response about souls and heaven and other things I don't believe in. I mean, you can believe whatever you want and I'm happy for you if you can find comfort in that. I get nothing out of that and when I got annoyed today during therapy, I was annoyed. Not because I didn't want to face my feelings concerning her death but because I felt like she was dismissing my beliefs and not meeting me at my level. It's hard enough to lose someone you love without your therapist insist that I need to be more "open minded" and "accepting" of the possibility of an afterlife. It is possible. It just seems highly unlikely to me and using any sort of religion to comfort me is like trying to use Zeus to comfort someone.

I love her to death but this one thing drives me insane. Luckily, I do have LCM who is also an atheist or an atheistic Buddhist or something to talk to about this stuff because talking to school T about it quite frankly sucks.

I just wanted to rant. Has anyone else had a problem with differing religious beliefs?