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Originally Posted by onetwo_threefour
This may have already been said, because I have not finished reading the thread yet, but wanted to respond to this post.
Welcome to being an atheist for the past couple thousand years or better brother. You feel slightly uncomfortable in sharing your beliefs in public? How about having to hide your atheism so you can hold public office. How about being belittled for disbelief. That is and has been atheism for an awful long time.
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I always chuckle whenever I hear a Christian living in the Western World claim that they feel like some kind of persecuted minority. There was a time when that was indeed the case...but that hasn't been true for, oh, 1700 years or so.
A question for the atheists here: since many of us come from religious families and were raised in the faith, how did you explain your atheism to your parents? I'm sure this analogy isn't entirely accurate, but for me it felt like what I imagine a homosexual goes through when he or she "comes out" when I told my parents that I no longer believed in God and would not be attending church services with them anymore. Needless to say, it took them awhile to get over it. My father is more understanding, but it's been over a decade and my mother still hasn't fully come to terms with it.