Welcome!
I'm sorry to hear about your struggles. That must really be hard.
My advice is to try and not "make up your mind." Keep letting the evidence in, and remember that a "belief" isn't something you choose. You cannot choose to be convinced of something. There is no way I can truly believe that unicorns are a thing based on my experiences thusfar in life.
As far as growing up in the South, I survived it as a non-believer, and you will too. Do well in school, go out of state to a good college, and once you are self sufficient, you are free to be who you want. My joys were in being an expert subterfuge. I could outsmart most adults, so when I'd have conversations with these people who are so inculcated they cannot see past their nose, I was able to make them look stupid, but only to me. I only got caught once, because I got cocky.
I'm sorry to hear about your struggles. That must really be hard.
My advice is to try and not "make up your mind." Keep letting the evidence in, and remember that a "belief" isn't something you choose. You cannot choose to be convinced of something. There is no way I can truly believe that unicorns are a thing based on my experiences thusfar in life.
As far as growing up in the South, I survived it as a non-believer, and you will too. Do well in school, go out of state to a good college, and once you are self sufficient, you are free to be who you want. My joys were in being an expert subterfuge. I could outsmart most adults, so when I'd have conversations with these people who are so inculcated they cannot see past their nose, I was able to make them look stupid, but only to me. I only got caught once, because I got cocky.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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