I highly doubt it would cause me any physical harm but it would likely be social suicide and I would get to see who my true friends are and those that just say the're my friend.
Texas is quite the shit heap in the more conservative areas, which is where I happen to live. I hate to generalize but that seems to be the truth for the most part.
It is really not the worry of physical harm, as you pointed out that if they would if they could, but instead the worry of ostracism that I may suffer.
I don't perceive myself as a coward, I just don't see the need to make others who have no idea what their position is and what they think of it classify me as an enemy and therefore a waste of time. There are even teachers that would do this, making my grades an object of my personal nonbelief.
Texas is quite the shit heap in the more conservative areas, which is where I happen to live. I hate to generalize but that seems to be the truth for the most part.
It is really not the worry of physical harm, as you pointed out that if they would if they could, but instead the worry of ostracism that I may suffer.
I don't perceive myself as a coward, I just don't see the need to make others who have no idea what their position is and what they think of it classify me as an enemy and therefore a waste of time. There are even teachers that would do this, making my grades an object of my personal nonbelief.
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true.
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
