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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm atheist, but I've said I was Catholic at times when I felt it wouldn't be safe to say I'm not religious. I never say I'm atheist to anybody. The most I say is that "we're not religious." Too many crazy violent religious people around. [/quote]

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People like you are the reason I hide the fact that I even go to church.  [/quote]

+1.  I don't hide the fact that I go to church, but I don't bring it up because of bigotted reactions like that of top PP. I don't know who the rest of you are hanging out with, or maybe you all live outside the DMV area. In my case, nobody at my DC office asks and I don't volunteer.

The poster who is bullying everybody else to fly the atheist flag is just as bad as any fundie proselytizer.[/quote]

I'm the PP who wrote the above. We have lived this. My child was both repeatedly excluded and physically hurt by some religious children after they found out we aren't religious. Now I teach my kids to be extremely careful about when they say anything about lack of belief in god. I've also told them that it's okay to say you believe in god if that's what you need to do to keep yourself safe. (My child got away from the bullies by shouting "Okay! I believe in God!" several times and they finally stopped.) Myself, I never say anything about my atheism. Safety is more important. My kids haven't been physically hurt since we started warning them to be careful. I'm sorry it's necessary but safety is a bigger priority than educating other people.

If this is what you mean by "flying the atheist flag," even though we never actually say anything about atheism to anybody in real life and explain to the kids that they have to be respectful of people's religious beliefs while at the same time saying that keeping safe means not talking about being atheist, okay then. I cop to it. [/quote]

Well, Christians have persecuted non-believers wherever they've established a majority and taken power. That's not to pick on Christians--pretty much every religion that gets the upper hand immediately starts crapping on everyone else. That's because even the mildest questioning is considered a threat.[/quote]

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