(April 25, 2014 at 9:41 pm)nogodchick Wrote: I'm English, where its more or less okay to be a non believer, or at least people aren't all that interested. It's clear that the same cannot be said about vast swathes of the USA. I was wondering if there is such a thing as closet atheists. I mean, is it a phenomenon or is it ok to admit your Godlessness?I guess it depends where you are.
And I hear atheism is on the rise over there. Is that true?
In or around major cities, it's more or less OK to be an open atheist. Just because there's such a variety of people, it's hard for one radical group to get a foothold without half the community coming down on them.
I was fortunate to have grown up around, and sometimes in, Chicago my whole life. Even here, the religious people are pretty nonchalant about it, so religion was always just "there", but it was never really emphasized in any way.
And as we like to say around here now...
Chicago is very open minded, and not at all bigoted. Everyone, regardless of race, creed, religion, gender, or sexual orientation, has an equal chance of being shot.
:p
