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[quote=Anonymous][quote=FruminousBandersnatch][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the opposite - an undercover Christian. The environment I work in is almost all atheists and they make very clear their feelings and negatives attitudes about Christians, so I just stay quiet. Sometimes I feel very guilty about doing so but I have seen a couple other people 'come out' and it has been really ugly. So I just nod and smile. I just walk away from conversations where people are trashing Christianity or mocking a specific person because of their faith. Not very Christian of me to not stand up for them but I am not prepared to handle the consequences of speaking up. [/quote]

First reaction: doubtful, unless you work for the American atheist association.  SOunds more like a Christian taking an opportunity to make atheists look bad [/quote]

As a fellow atheist, I disagree with you. I think once people in a workplace discovered that most everyone who was there shared their lack of belief there would be much more open conversation about feelings about what various religions/religious leaders are up to, because, let's face it, there are plenty of reasons to make fun of certain religious leaders and their respected hypocrisies.

Conflicts over freedom from religion are in the news a lot more these days, the group building the Satanist sculpture to sit alongside the 10 Commandments and the supposed "black mass" to name just a couple, and I could see those being topics of conversation in a workplace where atheists felt more comfortable (they are in our house, where both DW and I are atheists).

Religion has so infected a lot of our politics, and politics has so infected our daily lives, that I have no trouble imagining those conversations that make the religious OP keep quiet.[/quote]

I agree with what you say.  What I think is unlikely, is that there would be an office environment here DC where most people happened to be atheists and happened to talk openly about it, so that they realized they were all atheists.  I doubt that would occur except in an organization that was itself atheist -- like the American Atheist association -- which is not in DC.

Thus my guess that it was a Christian trying out a  reverse discrimination story.[/quote]

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