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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My initial encounters with atheists were all with people who were angry with organized religion or the God they claimed not to believe in. As an adult, I met some people who were cultural atheists since birth and they weren’t angry, just smarmy and self-righteous. I keep waiting to meet in person the happy and tolerant-to-believers atheists that I read about online. I live in one of most diverse zip codes in a very well-educated county and am a hard core science fiction fan married to a STEM-doctorate so the problem isn’t that I live in a religious bubble. I’ve never preached at anyone whether they were a believer of a different faith or a non-believer so I’m not driving them away with my viewpoints.  In fact, many of the atheists I met expressed shock that I’m religious. [/quote]

I don't doubt many people turn atheist because they just could not square their poor lot in life with the thought of a loving God. Before you simmer too long on how unjustified these people are with their spurn of religion, reflect on how you would of thought of them in their prior state as seemingly devout believers - the two are the same exact person, separated by a traumatic life event. Out of a church full of people, how many of them can survive a loss without turning away from the God that their religious leader claims loves them? My point is that you only notice the ones that became angry and left the religion, and have no way of identifying those that are still bathed in the belief that they are one of God's loved children.

I've always been atheist. Maybe I am smarmy to other people and not even notice it. I hope I am not. I do like the fact that a major metropolitan area like DC is very easy to live in as an atheist. That said, there's been multiple attempts to recruit my family and I. I know they believe they are being nice to me, so out of recognition and respect for their kindness, I gently decline.

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