Do you ever feel "in the closet" about your atheism/agnostic views?

[TeamsterDem]

31. I'm too proud a patriot to accept their theocratic aims and "be quiet" about how wrong they are

There is no problem with being religious. But there is a problem if they want their religion imposing its values on MY country and the laws which govern it. I will NEVER shut up or be put in any "closet" for standing by the Constitution.

I refuse to live in a theocracy, and I refuse to be told that I'm either wrong or somehow lesser than they are for standing by the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. If they believe that God's word is supreme, they're more than free to live THEIR LIVES following it. But I have the right to choose or reject that position as well, and I deserve the right to have a secular government which accommodates ALL of us, which gives each of us equal protection under the law.

Sometimes I look around at things and do what I call a values assessment, making sure that I'm not prejudging things or refusing to see something because it doesn't fit some preconceived blinder I might've had. I have looked at this from every possible viewpoint and I still fail to see how someone could ever call themselves a patriotic, loyal American while simultaneously trying to push one religious doctrine into the public square - into law. We are the real patriots; anyone pushing a religious government IS advocating AGAINST what this country is and has been since its founding. It's they who are the radicals. And it's they who are wrong.

We should NEVER be quiet because we are right.