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I was a closet Atheist for years. I didn’t tell anyone. I don’t know if I didn’t wanted to be judged or piss people or didn’t want to argue with them. I didn’t even tell my wife, but she knew. I just never flat out said it. She asked me one time about it but I just danced around the question.
A close friend one day told me that she was agnostic, and she was the first person I told. I gradually told more and more people. My mom was the biggest obstacle, she is really religious and I didn’t want to break her heart. She flat out asked me over thanksgiving, and I gave her the hard honest answer that I have been wanting to tell her for so long. She took it pretty well. After that the big burden was lifted, and I don’t hide it at all, and have no problem telling anyone or expressing my views when the topic come up.
I think there is two reasons why Atheism is on the rise. First, people have more information, and starting to get skeptic to the stuff that they were spoon-fed since birth. Second, I think that there is a large percentage of the population that are closet atheist like I was, and society seems to be more understanding now, in fact more than it was five years ago.
This might be a little off topic, but I’m not sure what to do about my children with this. People of faith bring their children up to believe what they believe. I’m not sure If I should bring my children to believe what I believe, that there is no God, or present both sides and let them make up their own mind. It’s something that I really struggle with.
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