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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean I also don't walk around with shirts saying "I don't watch football".  Generally you don't advertise a negative.[/quote]

Sounds like you see not believing in God as a negative.  I don't.[/quote]

As an atheist, I don't see it as a negative, either. But there is no doubt that there are certain circumstances where we keep that private because of OTHER people's perceptions that being an atheist is equivalent to being evil. I had a friend of my daughter tell me (we've never ever discussed religion or beliefs around her and she told us she attended a baptist church) that she doesn't believe in god, thinks he's evil. Then she said "but I am not an atheist. I hate atheists...they are bad people". Because she is young, and because she is not my child, I just nodded my head and changed the subject, but this is how atheists are viewed by a lot of people. Not just that we don't believe in their god, which in and of itself is also confrontational to some believers. 
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