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~kyle

Hi ~starbreaker,

"Coming out" in a broad sense, intended as a declared lack of belonging, more than a change of flag. It actually feels quite good not to belong, even if as I said most people I'm hanging around with are believers.

Ironically, I feel that not belonging results in the acceptance of people of different cultures. For example, in my youth I have been fearful of Islamic people around me, simply because I kept hearing the Islamophobic views of my catholic parents. Soon after I started recognizing myself as atheist, I realized that my fear was based on yet another biased standpoint.

If I may ask, I would be curious to know what are your wife's problems with the Roman Catholic Church.

For the record, I can also enter a church without bursting into flame, but I feel increasingly embarrassed when I listen to anyone professing their beliefs. I especially cringe when I hear about supernatural events such as miraculous healing.

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~starbreaker wrote:

If I may ask, I would be curious to know what are your wife's problems with the Roman Catholic Church.

Aside from the corruption, the tolerance of child molestation, the misogyny, and the authoritarianism? Any one of those would be enough, I think.