At what point is America no longer a safe place for me to live?

[Pat Mustard]

I watched that whole movie (Religulous, for anyone who didn't know) with my daughter last weekend - I always laugh out loud many times over, sadly.  We also watched the obligatory "Letting Go Of God" from Julia Sweeney.  She's (my daughter, not Sweeney) one of the few people I'm "out" to (and her to me as well), and these helped me explain a lot of my reasons why.

That's one thing I (thankfully) don't get. Over here, I can be out as irreligious to pretty much anybody and the worst I'll get is a shoulder shrug and a meh. When I was out of work during the crash, I volunteered with an English language school for asylum seekers founded by a group of nuns, and even there I had no issues at all being an out and out non-believer. Literally nobody batted an eye at me, whether they were in holy orders or lay people.

One thing that I'll stress about the organisation that ran the school, they were strictly non-religious in all their dealings.