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Amusing Responses You Got From People When You Came Out About Being An Atheist.

I thougt It would be interesting to see some of the more comical responses people have received upon coming out. I'll start things off with my favorite.

I was about 16 and a guy in class found out that I didn't believe in god and he came up to me and asked

Boy: "So do you really not believe in god"

Me: "No."

Boy: "So.... You worship the devil?!"

I got this one in one form or another many times..... Gotta love the bible belt! :)

Scott

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Permalink Reply by Joe Henry on February 17, 2010 at 12:13am

I love how it is a funny predicament Christians are in because they LOVE being "persecuted for there beliefs" but at the same time you take away a 10 commandments and they are having a conniption. Atheists on the other hand get told we are immoral on a daily bases "at least in my case".

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Permalink Reply by Prog Rock Girl on February 17, 2010 at 5:09pm

Cause it's the in and popular thing? Look who's talking! I can't think of anything more obnoxiously trendy than Wicca--do we have teenagers flocking to atheism b/c there are TV shows about teen atheists?!

I noticed Wiccans are very good at debunking Christianity in much the same way atheists do--yet they don't realize the same arguments also apply to their religion.

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Permalink Reply by JettaJameson on July 9, 2009 at 8:18pm

My favorite response was from my aunt.

Aunt: We just have to ask god what the best plan is right now.

Me: Well, I don't believe in god.

Aunt: How?! Does your mom know?!

A little back story: My mom is textbook conservative. She's not A bible-thumper, she's THE bible-thumper. She always votes republican even though she knows nothing about the candidates. As long as they're Christian, that's good enough for her. I have had Christianity shoved down my throat for all of my life after the age of 5(she's the worst kind....born again). Imagine her disappointment when she found out I was a liberal, gay, atheist. Haha!

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Permalink Reply by Anthony T. Ferrari on May 11, 2010 at 1:38pm

bet that went over like turd in a punch bowl

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Permalink Reply by Steve V. on June 23, 2010 at 10:38pm

Yeah, another one...I swear coming out as gay is so much easier!

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Permalink Reply by Fred Price on November 7, 2010 at 5:16pm

ZOMG , you really cannot get more heathenish than that. the look on her face must of been angelic, pardon the pun.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Henry on February 17, 2010 at 12:05am

I love how "true Christians" get to be the arbiter of who is a Christian, not God or some other all knowing being.

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Permalink Reply by Nicola Montague on February 16, 2010 at 11:40pm

Not sure if this counts but I have always considered myself an Athiest/Humanist but I attended a fairly lax Catholic High School (I was beat up by a girl from the non religious High School), anyway I was always considered one of the "good" students, good grades, never in trouble etc., then one day in my Fifth year a teacher asked to speak to me to ask me if I would be alter girl for some church event the school was involved in, I calmly said no and was asked why not, to which I replied "Well I have never been baptised and am an atheist so I don't think I am what the church has in mind...". The look on his face was priceless.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Henry on February 17, 2010 at 12:03am

I go to a catholic High School and everyone now knows to avoid me after this.

Teacher: Joe, so why don't you believe in god?

Me: Why don't you believe in Zeus?

Teacher: Cause Zeus is not real.

Me: *raise eyebrows and look at teacher pityingly

Teacher: Any Way......