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

[Mister Agenda]

Well, considering the lack of irreligious politicians (at least publicly) here, that's a clue as to what it's like in general.  There are some areas/states/regions where it is worse than others.  Specific to the community I am in, it's pretty stark.  People from elsewhere, especially internationally, think I'm joking that it is very often within the first 5 questions here when meeting someone for the first time that you get "where do you go to church?"  Not if, but which one.  People, including co-workers of mine, think nothing of making rather blatant religious statements or asking questions along those lines even in a work setting - it honestly does not even occur to them that someone they know and like *could* be irreligious.

When I lived in SC and my son played ball I was often introduced to new people and it went like this:
AWTY - This is Mr. and Mrs. Soandso.  Their son is whatshisname.
Mr. and Mr's Soandso this is AWTY, her son is suchandsuch.
Me - Hello, nice to meet you.
Mr. and Mrs. Soandso - Who is your church family?
Me - in my head - which is worse admitting you don't have a church family or revealing that you were raised Catholic?

Every damn time.  Didn't even make it to the 5th question.

Can confirm. A conversation like that is how I wound up coming out as an atheist at work.