{"id":3325,"date":"2015-04-23T19:45:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T00:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2015-04-23T20:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T01:06:52","slug":"proud-to-be-openly-secular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/04\/23\/proud-to-be-openly-secular\/","title":{"rendered":"Proud to be Openly Secular"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name is Damion, I’m an atheist, and I’m proud to be openly secular.<\/p>\n

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I’m also happy about it, but that might not be obvious<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I’ve been openly secular ever since I was outed by the Norman Transcript<\/a> in 2008. For many years prior to that, I was out\u00a0to everyone except my mother (and foolishly optimistic enough to think that Oklahoma newspapers would go unnoticed in\u00a0Colorado).<\/p>\n

I’d like to briefly enumerate the joys of being out as an atheist and secularist.<\/p>\n

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  1. People hardly ever invite us\u00a0to church, temple, or mosque.<\/li>\n
  2. Door-to-door missionaries are\u00a0a stimulating and enjoyable challenge.<\/li>\n
  3. We can\u00a0take\u00a0an\u00a0obviously moral action without having to\u00a0reinterpret scripture.<\/li>\n
  4. We can celebrate any given holidays with our families, or none of them.<\/li>\n
  5. When we don’t get a job after a rock solid interview, we can just blame\u00a0Google.<\/li>\n
  6. We can take a time machine to any Communist country without fear of denying our faith.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m almost sure there are several\u00a0unenumerated benefits lurking here. Feel free to leave yours in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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