Should I Come Out as an Atheist to My Religious Family and Friends?

[kldickson]

Religious belief is crackpottery. :) Can I say that without getting banned?

It would be a pity if saying that was a bannable offense.

 

[Hurkyl]

It would be a pity if saying that was a bannable offense.

Really? What does bigotry have to do with physics? (And how does it not violate our guidelines on religious discussion?)

 

[kldickson]

Hurkyl, there's a considerable distance between saying 'HURF DURF ICKY JOOZ' and saying 'Religion is founded on rather illogical premises and has been shown to be harmful'.

 

[kldickson]

Or substitute the name of whatever religion you want to substitute in there - Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Tea-and-Crumpetism, etc.

 

[Moonbear]

Religious belief is crackpottery. :) Can I say that without getting banned?

It's only crackpottery if one tries to apply it to a scientific question. If one keeps it separate from matters of science, then it is simply religion or theology. The OP wasn't asking for a discussion of whether religion is justified or not, s/he seems to have already made up his/her mind on the matter and was only asking how to tell his/her parents/family/friends that his/her views differ quite a lot from theirs.

 

[Math Is Hard]

I concur. The OP's topic hasn't been addressed in quite some time. Thread closed.