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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for sharing. It sounds like it could create a lot of stress for kids if they didn't share those beliefs. Was that in the South?
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Np here. I don't think it would cause stress. 
Just a fact of navigating it.

You're usually in the literal and figurative clubs. Or you're not. And everyone knows where you stand pretty much. And everyone knows if you are religious but being wayward anyway. [/quote]

What about the slut shaming the PP described? That would stress me out if it happened to me or even if I thought it could happen to me.  [/quote]

Eh - I'd rather go for the slut shaming than participate in that stupid trash. Bring on the slutting!

Geez. I grew up in DC and my mother dragged me to church every darned Sunday but i just couldn't get anything out of it. I'm a pretty moral and good person but I didnt like the sexism and hippocracy of the church (the meanest most self centered people go to church the most), didn't get anything out of praying, and I dont 'fear anything' including god. I don't understand people who go for all of this stuff verbatim. Not even 15 years of Catholic school could make me a robot - I'd much rather be known as a slut.

Don't get it. And yes we have religious relations in the south and they say ignorant off the wall things - it's really like they are in a cult.  [/quote]

Sounds  like you were a born atheist.  Just like some people are born susceptible to belief[/quote]

I'm not an athiest. Not fearing god doesn't mean I dont believe there isn't one. I dont think that any one religions 'god' is more valuable than another one's either though.
Though I don't know maybe I care so little for formal religion  maybe you could describe me that way - but I don't 'believe' in atheism enough for that label either.

I think we're back to 'slut'...[/quote]

There is no such thing as believing in atheism.  Atheism means absence of belief.[/quote]

Apparently it's more complex than that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism

I also like the point about how[b] it's strange to label people for what they are not [/b]

Some atheists have doubted the very need for the term "atheism". In his book Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris wrote:

In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist". We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.[61]
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It's not strange in the society in which we currently live where being religious is the norm.  There are lots of "a" words that are legitimate but not used very much, e.g., apolitical, asymptomatic (used more by physicians), asexual.

I agree with Sam Harris's point, but also think we're not there yet when it comes to religious belief.  The examples he used are of things that most people already don't believe in.

When most people don't believe in god, maybe the use of atheism and agnosticism will be as rare as non-alchemist.  That could take a long time.[/quote]

Not sure thst 'being religious' is the norm in the DC area. Most people just go to church as a social thing, and they go through the motions but not too many people are seriously religious here.[/quote]

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