(October 30, 2010 at 5:45 pm)Darwinian Wrote: Well, I suppose by the standards of where you live I'm pretty lucky. I live in an environment where, if I where to go to Sunday school and regular Christian group meetings I would be viewed by the general population as mentally unstable and most people would probably give me a pretty wide berth as if somehow I had a contagious decease.
You lucky duck! I'm horribly jealous!
(October 30, 2010 at 5:45 pm)Darwinian Wrote: I can't imagine living in a place where what you describe is the norm, it sounds horrible. I mean, talk about indoctrination.
Where I live, it's not indoctrination, it's downright oppression. My town is ruled by South Baptists with iron fists, and they don't let any moral discrepancy slide. Alcohol is a big no-no in their eyes. That's why alcohol sales are illegal in my town.
What I find to be so disturbing is that they can't understand how tax dollars from alcohol could benefit the school system. My school is incredibly lacking; the football team just received $1.1 million dollars to build a new field house, yet the overwhelming majority of the library books are from 1945-1960. So, instead of doing the sensible thing and taxing alcohol, the sales tax where I live was increased from 7% to 9%. Although this money is supposed to fund the purchase of new textbooks, more likely than not it will go to the purchase of new jockstraps for the footballers. The way that athletics has consumed my town is absolutely disgusting. That's why I'm going out of state for college and (hopefully) live overseas for the remainder of my life.
(October 30, 2010 at 5:45 pm)Darwinian Wrote: I say, good for you. The more people who 'come out' as atheist and just get on with their lives in a friendly and non religious way the more it will seem normal and the more other like minded people will follow suit.
Go for it
Thank you very much! I'm looking forward to my 2 and one half hour trips to the book store!
"If your god has to make peace with me in my final hour when he has my whole lifetime to prove his existence to me...do you think I should bother?"
"But the happiness of an atheist is neither the vacuous enjoyment of a fool, nor the short-lived pleasure of a rogue. It is rather the expression of a disposition that has ceased to torture itself with foolish fancies, or perplex itself with useless beliefs." - Chapman Cohen
"But the happiness of an atheist is neither the vacuous enjoyment of a fool, nor the short-lived pleasure of a rogue. It is rather the expression of a disposition that has ceased to torture itself with foolish fancies, or perplex itself with useless beliefs." - Chapman Cohen
