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FFRF coming out campaign
June 7, 2011 at 7:41 pm
the freedom from religion foundation has been promoting for serveral weeks now their coming out as an atheist campaign.
Their main message is that the nonreligious are large prrtions of your community and are good people. This is supposed to encourage others to come out.
I have long challenged my parents on their faith and they know I don't believe. they allowed me stop going as a minor.
The question I pose to the forum.
Does your family, work or friends know your an atheist? Or maybe you still goto church does any church members know?
If you have came out do you have an interesting story?
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RE: FFRF coming out campaign
June 7, 2011 at 8:17 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2011 at 8:18 pm by reverendjeremiah.)
Yes..most everyone who knows me knows that I am an atheist, they know my wife and children are atheists as well.
Interesting story? My (christian) sister in law tried to tell my wife that "you cant raise your kids to be atheists"
All hell broke loose after that.
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RE: FFRF coming out campaign
June 7, 2011 at 9:47 pm
And by hell, you mean metaphorical hell embodied with much human-produced caterwauling?
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RE: FFRF coming out campaign
June 7, 2011 at 9:48 pm
Pretty much everyone I know is aware of my atheism. I don't advertise it, but when asked, I won't lie about it either.
I grew up going to a baptist church, at the age of 13 I started questioning everything, by 15 I was out completely and never looked back.
Nothing is your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull. - George Orwell
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RE: FFRF coming out campaign
June 8, 2011 at 1:26 am
Yeah my family knows. But where I live the whole religion thing is not as big as a deal as it seems to be in the USA, people are waaaay more relaxed about it (with exception of our own bible belt).
When I was a Christian, I was annoyed with dogmatic condescending Christians. Now that I'm an atheist, I'm annoyed with dogmatic condescending atheists. Just goes to prove that people are the same, regardless of what they do or don't believe.
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