(April 3, 2012 at 11:03 am)FallentoReason Wrote: I don't know about the social construct in your life Phil, but you can't just drop the disbelief bomb on 80% of your born-again Christian friends. Social suicide.
This is very true. When I left the fundamentalist church to return to catholicism (on my way to becoming an atheist), I lost every friend I had and my entire social support structure. When you have been that enmeshed in a certain church and religion, even leaving for another can have huge consequences. Coming out as an atheist has the very real potential to turn your life into a living nightmare of harassment, threats of violence, actual violence, property damage, and poisoned pets, just for starters.
Religion is not the answer-it is the problem. Everything considered, we would be better off without it.~Baubles of Blasphemy~Edwin F. Kagin
"Much better to have the ability to think critically, than the ability to quote scripture. One says you have a functioning mind. The other says you're a parrot." -- The Secular Buddhist
"Much better to have the ability to think critically, than the ability to quote scripture. One says you have a functioning mind. The other says you're a parrot." -- The Secular Buddhist
