from another bastion of Bible-Belt hell:  Missouri.  (aka "Misery")  Right next door to the loony bin known as Kansas.
I feel your pain!   But I think you're gonna love it here!

(June 6, 2016 at 5:01 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Why is it that Florida is never particularly considered The South when Florida is literally further south than every other place that considers itself Southern.

Eh Texas is sometimes the west and sometimes the south even though we are in the middle... It is just a culture thing. In Texas we have a southern way of life while I assume from my very brief trip to Disney World y'all might not have biscuits and gravy ;p Naw I actually don't know what the culture life is there.

Welcome

Welcome.

Wife is catholic. It works.

Do you feel a compulsion to respond to "The stars at night,...................."?

*belts out singing* Are big and bright *claps* deep in the heart of Texas!

... no of course I don't have an compulsions *twitch* lol

Minimalist Wrote:

Maelstrom Wrote:Why is it that Florida is never particularly considered The South when Florida is literally further south than every other place that considers itself Southern.

Lots of jews and cubans there.

And retirees from up north.

Welcome, ml. I've lived in SC for the last 26 years, and spent about half my life previous in the South; but I was born in Illinois.

Meetup.com is a good resource for finding other like-minded folk, it has a feature where you set the range and it finds Meetup groups with that description within that distance.

Another place to meet agnostics, atheists, and skeptics is a Unitarian Universalist fellowship or congregation. The joke goes that Unitarians believe in one God...at most. Unitarian Universalists run zero to sixty.

Welcome. I'm from Alabama, so of course the town I live in has a dozen churches scattered around.

(June 6, 2016 at 4:15 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: So hello, I just googled atheist forums looking for someone to discuss religion with and this was the first link. I live in Texas which means everyone around me is Christian so I need to look elsewhere for any kind of conversation that doesn't involve god bless you, have a blessed day, god works in mysterious ways... etc. My fiancé is Roman Catholic and we work because we don't really discuss religion but I would like to be able to discuss it with others of a like mind. I do follow some atheist pages (literally just started a month or two ago so I'm very new to being able to actually vocalize my beliefs without getting told I'm wrong) and comment with the other readers but that is more of whatever the person wants to post at the time. I would like to have a more broad conversation.

I live in Texas too. Welcome.

(June 6, 2016 at 5:01 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Why is it that Florida is never particularly considered The South when Florida is literally further south than every other place that considers itself Southern.

Because Florida is a meltingpot of people from all over the country including many Latin Americans. So even though it is south, it doesn't have the Southern type culture people refer to when they are talking about "The South."