RE: Nice to finally have people to talk to about atheism
June 29, 2013 at 3:41 pm
(This post was last modified: June 29, 2013 at 3:48 pm by orogenicman.)
(June 28, 2013 at 5:08 am)Darwinian Wrote:(June 28, 2013 at 1:12 am)wower032 Wrote: Hi, I'm 21 years old junior in college. I haven't believed in a God for years, and this year I finally told two people. Not telling anyone/talking about it for so long was hard. I told my best friend, who is a Christian, but she accepts me for me and it doesn't bother her.
Anyways, I've been dating my boyfriend for over a year and just recently told him I dont believe, while drunk. Not the smartest move, but anyway he freaked out and told me he does, definitely does blah blah. Haven't talked about it since, what should I do about that?? We never really talked much about religion until that night.
Also, should I ever tell my parents? They are Christians, don't go to church to often but definitely very Christian. They drag me to church sometimes and I HATE it, literally can't stand it. Any thoughts on this? Im afriad it willl break my parents heart.
Again, this never ceases to amaze me. I'm assuming that you are American based on my experience of these forums if nothing else.
If you were to come and live here in England, make a few friends and then, after you pluck up the courage, tell them that you were an atheist the reaction you would receive would be underwhelming to say the least, generally along the lines of "OK", "So what?", "Yeah, so am I" etc. etc.
The fact that there are 'civilised' countries in the world were being an atheist is something you have to keep to yourself for fear of reprisals and judgement still baffles me :S
Welcome to the forums also
The simple reason is that the only western country that is more religious than the United States is Turkey.
(June 28, 2013 at 10:09 am)Savannahw Wrote: Hello and Welcome. Have a cookie.
I'd talk to your boyfriend, if you want to relationship to progress. However, you know your family better than we do. I will wait awhile to tell mine, because some will probably disown me. I'd judge that situation on how you see best.
Generally, what I have done is told family members if and only if it came up, but I've never made a point of telling anyone just so that they know how I feel. I believe in honesty in interpersonal relations, but that doesn't mean that I must divulge everything about myself to everyone. If someone wants or needs to know, I tell them. Otherwise, I go about my business. I just don't worry about it too much.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
