So i just had a Marriage Equality argument with my Atheist, Conservative co-worker

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26. Thanks for your reply to my theory....

I am sure over time your influence as a fellow atheist may help him come to realize that he might hold onto some religious mis-teachings and myths still more than he may need to.

I know for myself, and I have read about other atheists, too, that the process of letting go of all that we had been mis-taught was a longer one than the single day or time we arrived at the logical conclusion that belief in any god was highly questionable and most unlikely to be correct.

There are a lot of other myths and misunderstandings of the world, of science, of human psychology which religion imparts, (at least, in my case Protestantism did). Much of what religion imparts is outdated, incorrect, inaccurate, or simply less than well-informed, given advances in our scientific knowledge of the world over the last few hundred years. We know, for example, that people are not possessed by the devil, but that they may have a mental illness, for instance, a relatively modern concept, wherein we use medication to treat it. Religion has a lot of those folkloric images left within it, including the mythology that marriage has always been between one man and one woman.