re: #238 wrenchwench

I went to a meeting on Tuesday that started with the Pledge of Allegiance. It had been a few years since I’d recited it, and it kind of came back to me as I was saying it. I went, “…One nation, under gahhh…”

Later that meeting I committed the heresy of speaking against bike lanes as a Vehicular Cyclist.

I used to be a rather well closeted atheist. Not that I’d pretend to pray or anything like that. I would just never tell a soul that I was an atheist. Now, if the conversation is going there I’ll bring it up. Kind of creepy sometimes because a lot of people in this world won’t hesitate to insult atheists or atheism. I had some guy do that to me one. We were pretty much friends. Forgot what he said exactly but I interjected with “I’m an atheist.” Of course I got the common answer of “oh, don’t tell me that.” It’s weird. People don’t realize how poorly Americans treat atheists. They keep whining about this alleged war on Christmas which is many times motivated by atheist groups and the ACLU. But the war on atheism in this country is real as this West Point case illustrates. It’s a systematic discrimination against atheists on many levels of society.