I didn't answer the poll, neither choice seems accurate.
I don't go around trying to deconvert people or admonishing anyone who says anything religious. But I do respond to doorbell ringers for fun, when I have time. And I don't hide my atheism.
I find myself becoming more outspoken as my children near adulthood. That is because it is only recently that people outside our family have tried to convert them. I have responded by helping my girls come up with responses to their peers, though mostly they are perfectly capable of doing that on their own. Neither is shy about being atheist. But the times parents of their friends have tried it, I've gotten angry. The double standard has me rankled. "Sure I'll be happy to let you take my child to church, if I can tell your child why the Bible is wholly unreliable," is an offer that gets no takers. But they still can't see that it's a double standard.
I don't go around trying to deconvert people or admonishing anyone who says anything religious. But I do respond to doorbell ringers for fun, when I have time. And I don't hide my atheism.
I find myself becoming more outspoken as my children near adulthood. That is because it is only recently that people outside our family have tried to convert them. I have responded by helping my girls come up with responses to their peers, though mostly they are perfectly capable of doing that on their own. Neither is shy about being atheist. But the times parents of their friends have tried it, I've gotten angry. The double standard has me rankled. "Sure I'll be happy to let you take my child to church, if I can tell your child why the Bible is wholly unreliable," is an offer that gets no takers. But they still can't see that it's a double standard.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
