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[[File:Madalyn Murray O'Hair-Wikimedia.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|The [[Atheism|atheist]] [[Madalyn Murray O'Hair]], founder of the [[American Atheists]], had a public relations controversy when one of her supporters suggested that an atheist funeral was a contradiction. The supporter said it was best to throw the body in a hole and move on.<ref>[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unreasonablefaith/2012/05/atheist-funerals/ Atheist funerals]</ref>]]
The secular magazine ''The European'' writes about [[Atheism|atheist]]/secular funerals: "Yet – and it feels like heresy to write this – secular funerals, for all their sincerity, individuality, and mixture of celebration and mourning, lack something... What is missing is the power of ritual repetition.<ref>[http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/nigel-warburton--2/6796-atheist-rituals A Secular Funeral]</ref> See also: [[Atheism, rites and rituals]]
The secular magazine ''The European'' writes about [[Atheism|atheist]]/secular funerals: "Yet – and it feels like heresy to write this – secular funerals, for all their sincerity, individuality, and mixture of celebration and mourning, lack something... What is missing is the power of ritual repetition.<ref>[http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/nigel-warburton--2/6796-atheist-rituals A Secular Funeral]</ref> See also: [[Atheism, rites and rituals]]