RE: new atheist need advice
July 8, 2016 at 12:55 am
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2016 at 12:55 am by SteelCurtain.)
(July 7, 2016 at 4:52 pm)afrist34 Wrote: You are all so incredibly kind and helpful; I can't tell you how much your responses mean to me, and the encouragement is wonderful! Thank you, thank you. To answer a few of you, I'm not dependent on my family, we are just incredibly close and I help out with some health problems. So while I have stepped out on some issues that I knew would not be popular in the past, I'm so hesitant to speak out when they're already beyond stressed. I know expressing yourself is not wrong, but I feel like sometimes circumstances are just so fragile that it might be best not to.
Welcome!
I just wanted to say as an atheist, you're not required to do anything about said atheism. If you love your family and you think that coming out would put an unbearable strain on your relationship, then don't! I have the same sort of family. Highly religious, highly evangelical. I did come out (when I was 18 and at the Naval Academy and pissed off at my mom about something I can't even remember... :S) and it didn't go as poorly as I thought after an initial rush to save my soul. I ask enough uncomfortable questions that they'd rather not anymore.
Anyways, moral of the story: you do you. You don't have to come out right away, you don't have to ever come out. I live in Tennessee, and you wouldn't know I was an atheist unless you asked or said something stupid to me. Or saw my twitter/FB feed.
Again,
"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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