[ExI] texas county judge demands residents wear bananas

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 1:23 PM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 at 05:54, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:52 AM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there anywhere in the US where an atheist who simply ignored anything
>>> to do with religion (which describes most atheists) would be noticed and
>>> frowned upon?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, mostly in the South.  I stay away from those places.  (Theoretically
>> I might visit for work, but if so I would keep my interactions strictly to
>> the work-related area - which would likely be protected by police biased
>> toward those there to do the work.)
>>
>> Even in California, I have received death threats after I explained to an
>> evangelist, who was trying to get me personally to convert, that I was an
>> atheist, though this was some decades ago and atypical for the region.
>>
>
> I imagine you would attract attention if you announced that you were an
> atheist, but if you lived and worked in the South and just never mentioned
> religion, or politely smiled and moved to the next topic when someone else
> did, would you be OK?
>

For a while, yes.  (Thus my being willing to attend, say, a week-long
conference.)

The problem comes when you run into folks who don't let you move on, who
insist on talking religion and finding out whether you are a believer or if
you are one of the "enemy" who they think that punishing publicly will let
them gain, or stay in, control of their community.
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