Non-believers hold coming out party in Charlotte

[SecularMotion]

Atheists across the Carolinas held a coming out party at a weekend conference meant to show support for non-believers living in the Bible belt.

About 80 people attended the third annual Carolinas Secular Conference held at the Hilton Hotel in Charlotte near Interstate 77.

The reason: “It’s the one time of the year they get to be surrounded by people who think like them,” said Jennifer Lovejoy, an Asheville resident and president of the Carolinas Secular Association. “They shouldn’t have to move to New York to find a community.”

The mix of speakers and discussion sessions touched on discrimination against non-believers and how group members felt that religious fundamentalists were taking over public education.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/10/05/4367361/non-believes-hold-coming-out-party.html

[hrmjustin]

1. Cool.

[Warpy]

2. Oh, well, 45 years too late for me.

I think I knew two atheists there when I left. I felt like I was drowning in that sea of right wing Southern Baptists.

Boston was a better fit. Oh, the true believer Irish Catholics were just as deadly as the Southern Baptists, it's just that fewer people took them seriously.