(May 31, 2011 at 2:56 pm)Cinjin Cain Wrote:(May 31, 2011 at 11:10 am)orogenicman Wrote:Cinjin Cain Wrote:Being openly atheistic in a christian high school and church is tantamount to being a rock star.
I would disagree with that statement. Here is a video that shows what can happen, hopw bad it can be for the student (and this happened in a public school. Imagine what would happen in a Christian school:
All I'm saying here is that there are consequences to coming out, and the OP needs to be aware of what they are.
Well, that wasn't my experience. Perhaps I was simply a lot stronger than that little girl was. Regardless, I think her father should sue the SHIT outta that school for the reactions of the teachers and staff.
I hope they do as well. I think a little caution is advised here, because we don't know how the people around the OP will react if he comes out, so he needs to really think long and hard about it before making a decision. And I don't think it hurts anything to wait until he's of age. He knows what he believes, and he shouldn't let what other people believe bother him. But teenagers can be cruel, and so can family members. That girl was obviously very young (probably my oldest grandson's age - he is also a declared atheist, though I haven't heard that anyone has given him much grief about it. He's a pretty likable kid). I'm glad her father was so supportive. That's important.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
