Your lucky as I’ve lived here in western Oklahoma for 65 years and only have a couple of atheist friends. Most are religious but are good people, they just have perverted views about certain things.

well done you's all for finally getting there and hooking up. Maybe you need a special handshake or wear a rainbow coloured scarf to know friend from other.

pucker what a result.

How awesome!

Another awesome story! Stay warm!

Reading this makes me realize how lucky I am to be living in Buddhist Thailand.
Since their beliefs include allowing to people live and let live, nobody bothers me, or even asks about my religion, and my students mostly assume I'm "Christian" because I'm American.

On the rare occasions they ask me about my religion, I shrug and say that I don't know. I admit I'm sort of a Christian/Buddhist in some ways, but mostly I don't know, and see quantum physics as my default religion.

I once got a letter published in the FFRF newsletter. Afterward a local guy called and said he was surprised there was another member on the island. It turned out there were 4 couples that were members living on the island.

In 2012 we went to the Portland FFRF convention. My late partner knew a lot of people and I joked that wouldn't it be funny if she met someone here she knew (there were over 900 in attendance). I got the usual, you are funny look but, sure enough, the first night, I heard some screams and saw her embracing a friend she worked with at our farmers market. Neither knew the other was an atheist and a member of FFRF.

How lucky!!

That is a wonderful discovery

Kind of amazing what we don’t know about people. Do you live in Northeast America? I’m in Western New York State and that is also our forecast

I bet there are way more people who consider themselves non believers than we realize, but stay silent out of fear of negative reactions/ridicule. I never used to be vocal about my beliefs, mainly because I work for a Catholic hospital with many vocally Christian co-workers, but they all know I’m an Atheist. I’ve gotten over that as I’ve aged, to the point where when a supervisor told us in a meeting to pray that an open position would be filled, I straight up said, “no, I won’t be praying about that, sorry!”

Lucky you!

That's great, I wish something like that would happen around here.

That is so cool. Isn't it immensely gratifying to stumble upon such things? Lucky you. Did you turn them onto this website?

Nice.