I live in "The Buckle of the Bible Belt" (google it)
For a while I was the only atheist I knew around here. I know I am the only one raising my children to question everything, especially authority and fairy tales such as Christianity.
I have been held down and baptized against my will, as my children's father's parents tried to cast out my "demons". All of my friends are Christian, most of them are YEC's and my family is a bunch of Catholics. I don't like any of them, excepting my grandparents. I work at a pregnancy crisis center as a counselor, and they all hate it, but I someone has to be there to console the little Christian girls before they abort their fetuses. Might as well be someone who doesn't cherry pick verses from a useless book of bullshit to use as justification for the judgement of said girls.
I don't know how my community views me, and I don't care. Their problems with me are not about me, and therefore not my problem. I don't know why I am supposed to give a fuck what a bunch of deluded, ignorant people, suffering from folie a plusieurs think about me.
Yes, Christian America hates atheists. They also hate, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Wiccans, science, evolution, inconvenient facts, and introspection. So atheists aren't really that special, even if we are on/close to the top of their list of people that they (and their god) hate.
For a while I was the only atheist I knew around here. I know I am the only one raising my children to question everything, especially authority and fairy tales such as Christianity.
I have been held down and baptized against my will, as my children's father's parents tried to cast out my "demons". All of my friends are Christian, most of them are YEC's and my family is a bunch of Catholics. I don't like any of them, excepting my grandparents. I work at a pregnancy crisis center as a counselor, and they all hate it, but I someone has to be there to console the little Christian girls before they abort their fetuses. Might as well be someone who doesn't cherry pick verses from a useless book of bullshit to use as justification for the judgement of said girls.
I don't know how my community views me, and I don't care. Their problems with me are not about me, and therefore not my problem. I don't know why I am supposed to give a fuck what a bunch of deluded, ignorant people, suffering from folie a plusieurs think about me.
Yes, Christian America hates atheists. They also hate, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Wiccans, science, evolution, inconvenient facts, and introspection. So atheists aren't really that special, even if we are on/close to the top of their list of people that they (and their god) hate.
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