Expat atheists, like believers, seek fellowship

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2012-03-20 09:16

Non-believers tend to agree that losing one’s religion is a long process, not an overnight event.

Still, on one’s road to atheism there are moments that stick out. Katherine Sirgey recalls learning the scientific method in high school. Dave Roberts began asking a lot of questions while studying genetics in college.

And Matthew Feinberg remembers a peculiar request from a friend who was devout.

“He told me that I shouldn’t go see a movie because if I saw that movie I’d go to hell and they didn’t want to think of a nice guy like me going to hell,” he said.

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1. I think the need for atheist fellowship is proportional to the oppression one feels from religion.

In my neighborhood, a few people attend church regularly, but no one seems to care what anyone else believes. My need for atheist solidarity is limited to fighting rethug attempts to encode biblical law in our Constitution and statutes; and the atheist AA group I attend.

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2. Agree with this. And I think those who experienced the most oppression

or damage from religion are the ones who are least tolerant of any religion or religious people.