I'm an open atheist.
I remember as a small child sitting in Sunday school and thinking, "They're making all this stuff up just to trick us small kids." However after hearing that my parents and grandparents believed it, I spent years trying to believe and was convinced I might go to hell because I had doubts. This sort of brainwashing is an awful thing to do to any child.

I'm an open atheist.

Open...all the way.

Open 100000% and it's gotten me into quite a few predicaments (living in the bible belt)

I'm 61, way past needing someone else to validate my thoughts. I simply don't care, it doesn't affect my life to admit I'm an atheist.

Open cause it's something to be proud of!!

I am an open atheist. I have nothing to hide.

I've been very open for about 40 years. If I am ask or questioned about my beliefs. I live in the bible belt and my beliefs cause many to question my value. I found very little problems in the educational surroundings I found in my life as a teacher.

I came out of the non-believer closet in January. I had to wait for my daughters to leave for college to do so. Boy oh boy did it stir up some noise in my small community in south Arkansas. 99% of people here would say they don't know an atheist/agnostic person. The few, very few that are here must stay in the closet or risk their careers and family.

Militant Open atheist. I want change to a secular society where decisions are based on science and reason, not dogma and rhetoric. Religion is poison, we have no use for it, apart from if you are a psychopath who needs money and power.

I have been an open and sometimes vociferous atheist/evidentialist/rationalist for a mite over 60 years. It has been a box of different rocks most of the time, but I have thick skin and a good understanding of human behavior and how the world works, so it has seldom been much of a sticking point.

As for the 'why' of it, I find it much easier to live an honest life and I don't like having to make shit up -- except when I'm writing a book, then I love making shit up.

I don't hide it, but I don't push it onto my religious acquaintances and friends either. Some of my best friends are deeply religious, they know my belief/opinions, but we love each other like brothers and would do almost anything for our group of friends. So, y'all tell me, does that mean I'm open or closeted?

Open. But for business reasons, I try to keep it quiet. I live in the bible belt.

as I stated earlier all my wife's family are religious so it is best to keep it to my self, I would not deny my atheism if asked but just don't openly reveal this, a few know most do not

Dont really talk about it unless im asked about it, it usually opens a can of worms that distracts me and whoever im talking to from whatever we were actually doing

I am open about my atheism. I am surrounded by a family quite into religion and live in the UK. I feel for my brothers and sisters in more theistic communities, i.e middle East and the US where you would be forced into staying quiet...literally in some cases to save your life or your job!

I seek to fight intolerance in all its forms. This is fair, right and honourable.

I am an open atheist because it is important for people to know that atheists can be good people, and I try to be an example of that. If we are more open about our views, more people will feel like they can come out as well without being judged.

As a brown Army veteran, I am less hated for being an atheist than a Muslim. If someone asks my religion I will happily tell them I'm an atheist. In the more common way I get asked, I refuse to deny being Muslim. I ask "does it matter?" and "why?" and wait for serious answers. But generally, I am very open about it.

I'm an open atheist. I'm not terribly vocal about it, but people that know me will know that trait about me. Most of my friends are not particularly religious so it makes it a lot easier.

I don't hide the fact and would say as much if asked, but I really find the issue to be a personal one and not something that a polite person pries into.

I wouldn't go on an Atheist Pride march (if such a thing exists LOL) as I don't think it is something to celebrate and it is not a headline label for me. However, I might mention it if asked or in a discussion involving religion.

If someone asks about my religion I will tell them that I don't believe in religions and I'm an atheist, but I don't usually go out screaming in every face I meet that I'm an atheist

I'm an open one: I really like confrontation (a polite one)
especially 'cause I'm trying to live leading by example (kindness, generosity, etc support by knowledge) showing to religious people that we don't need a God to act in a good way;
usually, I like to show them that I know much more on their religious than them, quoting the bible against them (quite easy to do it)

I suggest to watch all the Richard Dawkins arguments on youtube that literally trained me to deal with that (now I'm able to argue with my evangelic sister that, opposite to Catholic, they know how to answer you properly making the discussion quite harder...

I'm not totally open in the sense that I don't generally announce it. When asked I'm not hesitant to state my views.

I get to "cheat" a little bit I suppose. When around fundamentalist Christians I can honestly say that I'm "Jewish/agnostic like my father before me and his father before him.

The "Jewish" bit give me a little leeway as most fundamentalists tend to respect Jews.

That last bit may well be changing what with Trump's friends giving the Nazi salute while chanting anti-Jewish slogans.

Open and proud.