When I became an atheist, to be honest, I really didn’t know any other non-believers. Or so I thought. As a few years went by, I discovered, even in my little town, that I was not completely alone in my disbelief. The difference was I was not afraid to talk about being an atheist to those believers, anxious to be the one to have me come back to Jesus. I can’t be certain that people knowing I am an atheist didn’t hurt me either professionally or socially, but I never feared about my job and as far as friends or colleagues were concerned, if me being an atheist repel you to the point you can’t be around me? Good for me.

Sometimes, people are just silly. We all know that and sometimes that silliness comes int the public square and actually, for a minute, becomes news. Today’s silliness has to do woth the White House Press Secretary’s wearing of a Christian cross necklace during press conferences. What? Would their be a complaint if it were the Str of David? How about the Hammer of Thor? See how this sounds? Even an atheist (me) can see the idiocy of that.