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Permalink Reply by M on June 20, 2010 at 4:26pm

I, too, love Christmas. However, I never pretend to pray. I take the time to recite the poem from "Alice Through the Looking Glass"-- the one about the sea being boiling hot and whether pigs have wings, and to look at people's faces as they pray.

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Permalink Reply by Jānis Ķimsis on June 20, 2010 at 3:10am

I'm sort of out. I mean, I wear the scarlet A lapel pin all time and will gladly talk about religion and science, which seems to be considered the atheist religion, if asked, but I don't preach, so to speak. My immediate family and closest friends are well aware that I'm an atheist, but I'm reluctant to have my grandmother know, because I have no idea how she'd react.

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Permalink Reply by Radu Andreiu on June 20, 2010 at 4:19am

I don't hide my lack of belief, but, where I live, nobody asks me whether I believe in a god or not; it seems that people here, although they are predominantly religious, don't really care about others' beliefs. It's quite wonderful, really, to see people keeping their religion to themselves. On my Facebook page, on Religious Views, I wrote truthfully "Atheist" and I have not received any comment; not on Facebook, not in the real world. Nobody wants to save my soul, make me repent or anything like that. I guess people here have other, more important, problems than imposing their religion on others.

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