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Hello from East Texas

I'm Sylvia from Southeast Texas. I am a lifelong atheist, and like I read in someone else's recent post, I have never thought to look online for atheist forums. I am so used to just keeping my thoughts to myself as I have always done here in this part of the country. I never knew an atheist outside my own family until I went to college when my kids were small. Recently I was invited to join a local Freethinker's group via Facebook. It's been refreshing to meet some of those people in person and to be able to feel free to express myself. I look forward to getting to know a lot of the folks here.

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Permalink Reply by Scot68 on May 14, 2011 at 9:49pm

Welcome, glad to have you here. Scot from Minnesota.

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Permalink Reply by Sylvia McDougald Holmes on May 14, 2011 at 9:53pm

Thanks Scot :0)

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Permalink Reply by Sylvia McDougald Holmes on May 14, 2011 at 9:53pm

Hi Eugene and thanks :0)

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Permalink Reply by roland707 on May 14, 2011 at 11:00pm

Hey! Good to meet you.

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Permalink Reply by Sylvia McDougald Holmes on May 15, 2011 at 12:42am

HI Eric, thanks...nice to 'meet' you as well :0)

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Permalink Reply by Wanda T on May 15, 2011 at 12:52am

Welcome Sylvia! I'm in San Antonio. Welcome to A/N!

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Permalink Reply by Ali Shah on May 15, 2011 at 9:15am

Sylvia ... A very warm welcome from thousands of miles away :-)

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Permalink Reply by Ali Shah on May 15, 2011 at 9:16am

Oh one more thing Sylvia I heard they are very religious there in Texas... Is it?

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Permalink Reply by Sylvia McDougald Holmes on May 15, 2011 at 4:57pm

HI Ali Shah...thank you for the very warm welcome. And yes...here in Southeast Texas, they are VERY religious. Places like Austin and Houston, and probably Dallas are more liberal and tolerant. But here....nooooooo....every other word out of anyone's mouth is "Jesus" "thank Jesus, praise Jesus, help me Jesus." LOL It's why I am so thankful to be meeting atheist friends...to save my sanity!

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Permalink Reply by Ali Shah on May 18, 2011 at 6:25am

Hmmm... Same in my home country.. A little bit different, they take out guns and kill if we even raise doubts on the "peaceful" religion of islam. Anyway stay safe and stay away from god :p

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Permalink Reply by Sylvia McDougald Holmes on May 18, 2011 at 8:58am

Hello Ali thanks for you post. No, it's quite a bit different here...we aren't in danger of dying because of our lack of belief. I admire you guys who dare to be nonbelievers in your part of the world. I know how dangerous it is for you. Take care!