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47. Next! Last?

Surely I'm not the last atheist around here. I've noticed that when there is a religious-type thread in GD, the atheists seem to come out of the woodwork. Maybe they don't know about this group? I didn't, until about 6 months ago, and I have really enjoyed reading many of the comments here. This place is full of brilliant and snarky freethinkers and I love it.

Oh yeah, I'm a 58-year-old Caucasian male married for 32 years to a 59-year-old Hispanic female. No kids (yea!!), one cat, no dogs at the moment. We have saved so much money from not having kids (no college, no teenage auto insurance, etc) that we are just a few months away from retirement. We are currently plotting our "Retirement Tour 2015" where we plan on taking about 6 months to travel from Houston (where we currently live) and criss-cross the continent with about 20 stops in between. Colorado and Washington State will figure heavily in our plans.

I was raised in East Texas, a deeply religious region (Louis Gohmert is the current Rep!) but my parents didn't really like going to church, so they never forced me or my 3 siblings to either. I wasn't what you would call atheist, however, until I attended college at Southwest Texas State University, now called Texas State at San Marcos. I was awakened and radicalized by some bearded hippy professors (thank God!).

I got a degree in Psychology and so naturally upon graduation started a career in television. I moved up the corporate ladder into management of advertising sales. If there are any soul-killing professions, advertising sales is surely one of the top candidates. Mere nanoseconds before I would have killed a couple of advertising executives, my wife got a job offer in Baltimore, so we left Texas for a few years. She saved my life and I became a kept man for awhile. I am now on my second career, this one in the oil and gas industry. Fortunately I work with highly-educated, liberal, atheist attorneys.

My wife, who is not on DU, got thrown out of Catholic school at age 8 for asking too many questions and never looked back. She's a hoot.

We love gardening, studying history, reading, making pottery, painting, and most types of music (except rap, opera and country), and poking at the Christians in our midst. Most of them have never even read the Bible and don't believe some of the stuff we tell them about it. It's my contention that, the more you read the Bible, the greater likelihood you have of becoming an atheist. That thing is fucking radioactive! It's no wonder the clergy didn't want the common man to read that thing for centuries.

In our retirement we plan on getting much more politically active. I would run for office if it wasn't for all of the drug and sex skeletons rattling around in my closet. Same "problem" with my wife. I am glad to know (of) all of you.