RE: Question for Atheists: Is coming out as an atheist as hard as coming out as gay?
October 1, 2014 at 5:58 am
(October 1, 2014 at 2:44 am)Blackrook Wrote: I've been reading the forums for a few days and I've come to appreciate that it is a very difficult thing for an atheist to "come out" to his or her Christian family?
Do you believe this "coming out" process to be as difficult and stressful as coming out as a homosexual?
And if so, how about this:
If you are both an atheist and homosexual, would it be better to "come out" to your parents on both issues at the same time to save on grief and surprise?
In any mature society it isn't really an issue.
In England people don't tend to know what other people believe unless it comes up for some reason.
One of my wife's friends tried to comfort me after my mothers death by saying "she was in a better place".
This was my first clue she believed that shit, my wife pounced before I could say anything but I was just going to smile and nod anyway.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
