RE: Who do you tell you are atheist?
October 22, 2014 at 6:09 pm
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2014 at 6:10 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Same here, about people really not caring. A couple of examples:
1). Shortly after we moved here, a couple on our street (lovely people) invited us to a Sunday service with them. Ellen broke it to them gently but firmly that we're both atheists. The missus of the couple said, 'We, maybe we could all take in a film sometime. Atheists go to the cinema, right?' We all had a laugh, and they've become good friends of ours.
2). Everywhere I've ever travelled (and I've travelled a LOT), as soon as people find out I'm from Norn Iron, they almost always ask, 'Protestant or Catholic?'. In NZ, the usual reply is a pause and then, 'I've never been...is it nice there?'
That being said, I don't hide my atheism, but nor do I go about wearing a sandwich board proclaiming it. I tell people who ask, or people who have some reason to know (like the couple in example #1. If I sneeze and someone says, 'God bless you,' I say thank you and go on, I don't get in a row about it.
Life's far to short to pick a fight with every religious person around.
Boru
1). Shortly after we moved here, a couple on our street (lovely people) invited us to a Sunday service with them. Ellen broke it to them gently but firmly that we're both atheists. The missus of the couple said, 'We, maybe we could all take in a film sometime. Atheists go to the cinema, right?' We all had a laugh, and they've become good friends of ours.
2). Everywhere I've ever travelled (and I've travelled a LOT), as soon as people find out I'm from Norn Iron, they almost always ask, 'Protestant or Catholic?'. In NZ, the usual reply is a pause and then, 'I've never been...is it nice there?'
That being said, I don't hide my atheism, but nor do I go about wearing a sandwich board proclaiming it. I tell people who ask, or people who have some reason to know (like the couple in example #1. If I sneeze and someone says, 'God bless you,' I say thank you and go on, I don't get in a row about it.
Life's far to short to pick a fight with every religious person around.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
