(April 1, 2014 at 1:00 pm)Alex K Wrote: The time I lived in the bible belt let me realize one thing: it eats your soul when you are reminded every day, in all kinds of situations, that your kind is officially seen as a lesser type of human being, untrustworthy, and to be shunned. Now minorities feel this every day everywhere, but this is when I felt it. You at some point feel the need to jump up and yell: stop telling lies about us!
(April 1, 2014 at 12:10 pm)KUSA Wrote: I don't know why many people feel like they have to come out of the closet on this.
There are friends I have that know I am an Atheist but most people don't. I look at it like this, if someone pushes me in a corner about it I'm gonna hurt their feelings with some cold hard facts. Otherwise I just live and let live.
I still go to my parents church from time to time out of respect to them. It doesn't bother me at all to walk in a church. I just simply don't believe. It's no big deal.
There are a lot of things I don't believe in but I'll watch a movie about it and be entertained. If it's a movie about Vampires I don't feel compelled to point out that I don't believe in them.
Just loosen up and don't give a crap about it. One day they will know that you don't believe. My parents really suspect that I find the bible to be a load of shit but I don't just come out and say it because they raised me and I respect them.
I live in the bible belt. It sucks.
