Great story thanks. It is really close to what I went through on easter a while ago, I was brought up baptist now atheist and my wife was Lutheran asked me to go and I wanted to appease her so I went. It is a different world, isn't it? The way they talk to each other and chant and eat the blood of christ, I thought it was ritualistic. At the end they all shook hands and said "he is risen" "he is risen" "he is risen" to each other. The repetition stuck with me, do they need to repeat it so they believe it? I heard an argument that there is a great amount of atheists going to church every day being fooled.
Congrats on keeping your lack of faith in the face of peer pressure, we deal with it every day. My heavily religious co-workers avoided me for weeks after one of them got a "NO" when asking if I believe in God. When I went to a friend who I thought was an atheist I told him about it and he said "What the Hell is wrong with you?" There is a lot of forced shame and rejection against our views. But stick with it, reason is our hammer and we shall make it ring loudly. It's hard to feel lonely with the good people here, I hope you find what you are looking for, email me anytime.
Congrats on keeping your lack of faith in the face of peer pressure, we deal with it every day. My heavily religious co-workers avoided me for weeks after one of them got a "NO" when asking if I believe in God. When I went to a friend who I thought was an atheist I told him about it and he said "What the Hell is wrong with you?" There is a lot of forced shame and rejection against our views. But stick with it, reason is our hammer and we shall make it ring loudly. It's hard to feel lonely with the good people here, I hope you find what you are looking for, email me anytime.
