(February 12, 2015 at 7:46 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: I read a post on another forum from a person whose parent or grandparent only admitted to being an atheist just before death. Apparently that atheist kept his/her beliefs secret for some reason.
I wonder what it was like to be an atheist back in the 1700s or 1800s or even the early 1900s?
I was born in the fifties. Until 1976 I was alone, the only atheist I knew. I'd heard of Madalyn Murry, of course, and of the Russians, but I didn't personally know any other atheists.
There had to be other atheists around, even in Kansas, where I grew up, but we couldn't admit who we were, so we couldn't find each other.
The world is so much better now. But you wouldn't have to go back very far to experience something very different.
