I believe it. People like me who grew up in a devout household and are atheists now are the weird ones. I can almost tell by sight at every atheist event I go to. The ones that look like they have seen hell vs the ones that were lucky.

I didn’t want to cause a whole thing because I have better things to do with my life than get offended but the last atheist event I went to someone asked me if I was considered introducing my kids to some diet religion type deal for “community” like Methodist or Baha’i or reformed Judaism. It just popped in my head that you might as well ask a homosexual who was forced into conversion therapy to “at least try dating the other gender and see where it goes”.

Now again I didn’t react the way I secretly wanted to I just told him that I think we are fine but I so wanted to bite his head off. I clawed my way out of that shit and no way anyone is inflicting it on my children.