A club exists at my school for the purpose of evangelizing students

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Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that your kind cultivate a presupposition that the only way to morality is through your holy book, and thrives on enforcing the belief that nonbelievers are evil and deserving of death, could it? Nothing to do with the fact that in America atheists are still a mistrusted minority group that routinely takes abuse from theists?

No, it couldn't have anything to do with those things. It must be shame, of course. Gotta be.

People don't closet themselves without good reason to, GC. Isn't it odd how many of those closets are constructed purely as protection against the supposedly moral Christian Right?

If one is not ashamed of who one is, then why closet, stand up for what one believes is right, I've always tried to do this, yes sometimes it gets me in trouble, but so what I can live with who I am and what I believe no matter what others think and walk proudly with my head up.

Why closet? I just fucking explained it to you: abuse from theists.

Surprisingly, some of us don't enjoy being subject to the assumption that we're evil, or immoral, or unpatriotic, because we don't believe in god. Some of us don't enjoy constantly having out belief system questioned as a matter of course by every theist we meet. Some of us don't enjoy the possibility of being belittled, condescended to, and excluded- if not outright assaulted- by you guys. We don't enjoy the threats of hell, the cajoling, the wheedling and dishonesty that theists routinely present as reasons to believe. We don't enjoy having entire career avenues locked off to us because we don't march in lockstep with the majority.

Those are all reasons not to come out. It must be really easy to "stand up for what you believe is right," when those beliefs also happen to align with the majority and would be lauded by most people just because of the word god, regardless of the actual beliefs. It's less easy when you have to contend with the very real biases and bigotry of people like you who can't step out of their privilege for even a second.