Comment by Kris Feenstra on September 14, 2012 at 3:05pm

I don't really get that where I live.  I was in a conference in Vegas last week, and it struck me as odd the number of times God, religion or faith were mentioned.  It wasn't an offensive amount and no one was preaching, but my brain still stumbles over the fluidity with which people throw out extraneous religious references in everyday conversation.  And I'm even making exceptions for idiosyncratic expressions like 'God bless you' when someone sneezes.

On a broader level, I do encounter what you are talking about, but it's perhaps a few times a month at most.  I even lived next to a church for the bulk of the last five years.  The only reason I think about atheism daily is because I check this site most days, but obviously that's a choice I make.

Comment by Ed on September 14, 2012 at 10:13pm

Perhaps I am just hyper-sensitive as a result of my living in the bowels of fundamentalist America. It's nothing a glass or two of vino can't help me cope with.   ; ^)

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