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

[Manifestor_of_Light]

96. Yes.

It's Southern Hospitality.
They tell us to go to hell.

I already was told by one fellow, "If you keep meditating and worshiping Buddha, you're going to hell".

I corrected him. I said"First of all, you don't know who's going to hell and I don't either. Secondly,Buddha is NOT a god. He is a man. An enlightened man. He is revered but he is NOT worshiped as a god."

Redneck's response: "Ohhhhhhhh......"



People invite me to their church and I decline and tell them I'm a Unitarian. Then they glaze over because they don't know what that is. I am 60 miles away from the nearest UU fellowship, let along an actual church.

Then I got crossways with some pagans that met at a UU Fellowship. They said their drum circle was dying & they couldn't keep it going. I said I would keep it going. I said I was an atheist and wished them "Namaste" in an email. They got enraged at me for saying Namaste to them instead of "You sorry meaningless transient meatsack"????