I'm coming out of the closet, wish me luck.

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The worst part is that I wouldn't have the support of family, since just about all of my family, in-laws included, are devout Catholics. Only support I would have would be from my atheist nephew.

Oh holy shit. Sounds like a rather crappy situation. My sympathy.

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I live in a more enlightened part of the Bible Belt (just north of Houston)

Conroe? or somewhere further north? Just out of curiosity.

I live in east Houston.

Just south of Tomball. BTW are you part of the Atheist meet up group? There's a large atheist meet up group in Houston. I think they might have a meet up location in Katy. If you like I think I can send you a link.

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I expect this will be taken pretty well. Methodists in my experience seem not to let biblical literalism get in the way of decency, and atheism is becoming a less shocking admission these days.

I used to be a funda mentalist Christian. In my gradual slide into atheism I decided to go to a Methodist church. It was refreshing not to have to deal with the literal interpretation of Genesis anymore and they are slightly tolerant of homosexuals. Not that I am a homosexual I just don't like it when they are discriminated against. I don't want to have to be a part of a group that does these things. It's one of the many things that bothered me when I was a fundie. I was a fundie because of a belief in god but I didn't like some of their bullshit attitudes and I would get my ass reamed when I said anything about it. There's a lot less ass reaming in the Methodist denomination.