The Fear Of Becoming An Atheist

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The Fear of Becoming an Atheist (The Atheist Experience #593 with Matt Dillahunty and Tracie Harris).

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[gjaddajg]

It's crazy that in 21st century America you "come out" to your parents as an atheist, like you "come out" as a homosexual. How sad it must be to live in a country where atheists are a minority, and are afraid of "coming out".

[donotfront525]

Fuck.. Matt is so good with analogys, one would say he's an analo-G

[bobdonda]

@jonsabbagh92 Yeah it's definitely a cultural thing. And that's something that I've never really understood, how all these unwritten rules of what's acceptable and what's not grow and take hold in a society.

It's just like how in some low-income areas, you'll be ostracized if you try to learn things in school, become educated, and get a good job. What kind of sense does that make, where did that even come from?

The US is great, it's a shame insane cultural quirks have to ruin it

[jonsabbagh92]

@bobdonda Well that's my point, that type of ignorance doesn't seem to happen in Lebanon. It only seems to happen in the US or in very extreme middle eastern countries like Saudi or something. The reality I guess is that the problem might not be the religion but rather lack of education and therefore lack of critical thinking, but that's just a guess. I mean my father even though is a very devout Christian didn't do what you mentioned because he's a smart sensible person.

[bobdonda]

@jonsabbagh92 Well, imagine if your father took religion much more seriously. Suppose his beliefs were so crazy and so strong that he thought your brother was doing the work of Satan, and couldn't stand to live with him if he's not a Christian. Your father would then refuse to speak to him, avoid him, and kick him out of the house as soon as legally possible. That happens in the US sometime.

Then in the middle east they take it to extremes, people get beheaded for leaving religion

[linkuei83]

@peej0625 we don't fear it because we don't believe it's real, is it so hard to understand this simple thing?

[pedarikarhu]

Lol at "coming out" as atheist. I don't even know if my parents are religious or not, we have NEVER talked about our personal beliefs in our family. We have never gone to church either.

Feels weird that someone actually has to "confess" to their parents that they are atheist.

[HammerOfNul]

Atheism has become much more prominent in the last decade. This thought is comforting, because the likelihood that I'll marry an atheist woman is higher than ever, and I wouldn't have to abide to teaching my future children about God as I would if I had a religious wife. Having an atheist family would give me much more time to be productive, and it would also give me a lot more free time, since I wouldn't be wasting it going to church and kneeling for nothing.

[herpderpmonkey]

I can totally relate to this girl. 

[JamesHLanier]

@peej0625 Can you introduce me to God? I've never met him.

[peej0625]

all you atheists fear for eternal condemnation! there is God, he is the bottomline there was no more before him, you know that we all know that! sorry but my english is bad

[naturalistmind]

i remember when i "came out", my parent said she felt like a failure for raising to "lost" people...(my other sibling is a rastafarian), she obviously does'nt know what rastafarianism is, but my family continues to challenge me but what i found most annoying was when i start winning the argument they claim i'm prosecuting them...