The Out Campaign

by: Chase Langdon

Richard Dawkins is a widely known Scientist and self proclaimed Atheist. The OUT campaign is a campaign on his site about the words atheists "coming out." I find this to be a wonderful thing to do but easier said than done. This is for one reason in one word: family. Growing up in the bible belt of North Carolina its hard to let people know I'm an atheist, because I just want to live my life with as little drama as possible. I'm not going to pressure anyone in Atheism if that's not what they want. I'm let them know why I'm an atheist and hope they will accept that as my opion and well I will accept their religious views as theirs. That's not the case, Christians set out in life hoping to make everyone Christians, I know this first hand because I grew in a Christian household. This process is called witnessing. My family would disown me if they knew I do not believe in the idea of a personal God. Its something I will have to face on my own I guess and when I'm ready, I know that sparks will fly and they may stop sending me money every now and then too :-p Who knows, it may go over well. I will do it when I'm ready.