If you can't force your religion on someone, you shouldn't force nonreligion on someone.

I used to be a bit obnoxious about my being an atheist from the ages of like 16-20, but that was mostly due to the fact that I was raised in a Christian household and attended a Christian high school, and caught shit from both family and faculty (never from friends) when I first started expressing doubts. So I felt defensive about my lack of belief because I'd had religion shoved in my face every day since I was born, and felt like I was being gaslighted by every authority figure in my life.

Once I left for college and stopped being surrounded by evangelicals, religion stopped being a problem (funny, that) so eventually I calmed down. But I'd be lying if I said there weren't a few years where the subject of god could bring out my inner edgelord.

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