Religious privilege.

[Leontius]

40. Based soley on my own personal experience of more than twenty years as a non believer

I think about 90% of this atheist persecution whine is BS. During most of the time I lived in one of the most conservative religious areas of the state and was quite open about my view of God's non existence and never was I received as other than someone with a different outlook, never ostracized by friends or coworkers never threatened in any way. Did I go out of my way to show how stupid I thought believers were did I express disgust and how put upon I was by seeing or hearing religious symbols or speech, No, so maybe that's a reason some should seriously think about. I have seen the opinion surveys and read the articles about real threats and ill feeling towards some activists and I don't discount these events I do however doubt the prevalence and magnitude of this persecution of atheists. It is highly possible that I was the luckiest atheist in America and have lived a charmed and sheltered life God works in mysterious ways I guess.