The Atheist Movement.

[abaris]

Why are you trying to sell that idea as something peculiar to you?

Because I'm me and can't speak for anyone else. Unless they tell me differently.

[Excited Penguin]

Why are you trying to sell that idea as something peculiar to you?

Because I'm me and can't speak for anyone else. Unless they tell me differently.

You can make observations about everyone else, like a normal human being. No one gives a shit about it anyway, so don't worry so much about speaking for everyone else.

[thesummerqueen]

Yeah, I've never felt attacked in groups. The need to gather together for most atheists I know has been for community, not protection...and I live in the Bible Belt.

This is one that I do not understand with people who are gay/lesbian.  Where I work there is "Pride" group, but the people whom I work with and for, I know practically nothing about their private lives or even where they live in general (which city), and so, a person could be completely gay and I would never know it, and so, what's the point of having such groups when one's personal life is so private to begin with?  I suppose that we can hang around people who have similar interests to us (like, stamp collecting); other than that, what's the point?

Far more people have been abused, killed, and otherwise ostracized for their sexuality than for their religious beliefs here in America. Its a much more visible sort of departure from "the norm".

[Czechlervitz30]

I think it is important that atheists unite against religious folk because the religious people unite with their groups and attack the lone atheist. Safety in numbers.

I never felt that way. Maybe because I don't live in the USA - so I wouldn't really know how things look there. I also never felt attacked by any religious folks. Where I live, religion or it's absence is private. Nobody asks and nobody really speaks about it. I never had to do the talk, and never felt the need to rally behind someone because of my lifestyle being threatened.

And to stress that point again, my life doesn't revolve around atheism. It's just the tiny kernel of not believing, not what makes me as a person.

Consider yourself lucky. I was forced to go to church the entire time I was under my parents' roof and even as an adult there are people still trying to get me to go back. You are lucky. It is almost dangerous to be atheist here in rural america.