RE: Why is it so hard to be openly atheist in today's world
February 19, 2015 at 10:31 pm
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2015 at 10:31 pm by SteelCurtain.)
Yeah I think it's all about confidence and how you present yourself.
I, for one, do not broadcast my atheism in my professional life at all. If you ask me or make a particularly inane comment, I'll let you know, but I am not proactively putting it out there. I have never felt like I was discriminated against.
But I've also not had a friend cease to be my friend over it, too. I could imagine that would be tough to deal with. I wonder if it's the type of people you choose to hang around with? Or for me the fact that I've never really ever chosen even moderately religious people to really get close with or hand around with at all, so that wouldn't really apply to me. Maybe that's the real advantage of never really believing. I never immersed myself in the church community, so every single one of my friends remained my friends after I put a label on it.
I feel a little more thankful that my mind works the way it does.
I, for one, do not broadcast my atheism in my professional life at all. If you ask me or make a particularly inane comment, I'll let you know, but I am not proactively putting it out there. I have never felt like I was discriminated against.
But I've also not had a friend cease to be my friend over it, too. I could imagine that would be tough to deal with. I wonder if it's the type of people you choose to hang around with? Or for me the fact that I've never really ever chosen even moderately religious people to really get close with or hand around with at all, so that wouldn't really apply to me. Maybe that's the real advantage of never really believing. I never immersed myself in the church community, so every single one of my friends remained my friends after I put a label on it.
I feel a little more thankful that my mind works the way it does.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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