Question to atheists

[The Grand Nudger]

I probably drew more comfort in my disbelief from the doubt of religious icons in magic books than anything else.  The authors have these people witness miracles, and still they lack faith.  It was obviously a prescient dilemma from the word go....and I've never seen any miracles in the first place.  Theres an amount of discomfort involved when you're surrounded by the religious.

I was going to say I can't imagine you chafing at any raised eyebrows, but then I realized that being as sociable as you are, you probably really would.  Fortunately you've married one of them.  Surely that will help in getting you accepted by the greater tribe?

I was speaking more to intellectual discomfort than social....but it certainly helps here in c ky.  The foot we put forward is hers, lol.  It's a practical necessity that our interactions with people go smoothly.  We're pretty much always selling something...so if people want to segue from freshwater shrimp to the restorative power of our lord christ-jesus (and they do!)..then we have to roll with it and that can be tense. My wife is brilliant at this. She starts dropping amens and hallelujahs and raising her arms up. Out-gods the creepy fuckers. It's almost as if they cant stand the sight of someone more enthusiastically involved in the contents of their fantasies than themselves..................

LSS, you can devise or learn strategies to control the flow of an interaction.....but the contents of your own intellect are far more persistent..more difficult to reconcile when they end up belonging to the minority report.