Quiet Atheist vs Militant Atheist

[abaris]

I grew up exposed to several religions and also found Charles Dawkins (The God Delusion) and Sam Harris (End of Faith). There are many atheists that don't speak up around their religious friends so they don't offend them. After all, there is freedom OF religion and freedom FROM religion in the USA.

I guess I'm what you would call quiet. I didn't need any atheist role models to become an atheist and religion or lack thereoff usually doesn't enter my conversations. But I'm not living in the USA. Religion isn't that present here in Europe. You have to be actively looking for it, since it's neither a part of politics nor everyday talk.

I don't even know if my family is at all religious, since we never talked about it.