Raising an Atheist

[Whateverist]

My wife and I are having our first child soon (she's due last week of December). We fully intend to raise our daughter secular, but I am unsure of how to handle social situations when she gets older: like if her friends are religious, or if she's excluded from social gatherings because of it.

Do you have children, and did you raise them Atheist? Did you run into any obstacles?

If you don't, what would you do? Religion, no religion, or expose them to everything and let them decide?

I met my current wife when my stepson was 6.  She and I are both atheists and in addition Lia is openly dismissive toward all things woo.  Unfortunately her ex was raised a mormon and switched to other forms of far out woo.  While I helped steer his mom away from running down her ex when K was around, her ex was very unconscious in that regard.  Anyhow, maybe it was his dad's influence or maybe religion just leaves a hole?  But my stepson grew up to become a priest in that cult involving the Brazilian guy who calls himself John of God.  Weird shit.

I mean, most (though not all) of us grew up in a tradition we rejected.  Our kids can only differentiate themselves from us by way of  religion or woo.  I'm able to talk with my stepson, now 40 and working as a mechanical engineer, about such things in a nonjudgmental way, finding commonality and not getting hung up on particular words.  His mother can't and doesn't want to do that.  

Anyway, that was our experience and I'm sure there are people here who have been able to bring their kids up in a way rich enough in meaning as not to leave them hungering after the extra special supernatural.  It didn't help that his dad was such an enabler and pretty pushy about it.  (It is some consolation that my stepson now regards his dad as inflexible about spirituality and avoids discussing any of it with him.)  I don't know how likely this is to be a problem for other people looking to raise secular kids.