US atheists - is it tough?

Time will dictate our minority status.

I feel protected and safe here. I don't understand how America got this reputation for being a religious nut place. Sure, we have a lot of fundamentalists but they're overnumbered by secular and moderate christians. Europe isn't that great either. The Queen of England is also the head of the Anglican church, how is that separation of church and state? How about the Prime Minister has to be Anglican otherwise he cannot hold that position (Blair converted to Catholicism after his term ended). Sweden's Constitution says that the King has to be christian.

This country was founded on religious liberty and tolerance. We might be in a setback now but I'm confident that the religious nuts will die out. They alreadly lost much of their influence compared to how powerful they were in 2004. I feel comfortable living in the U.S. and would not want to live in another place.

Actually I live in a fairly liberal town. Mostly University students and hippies. Unfortunately this makes quite a few of the conservative religious residents feel the need to overcompensate. So I definitely worry about the religious motives in local politics, but not nationally.. But overall, I find if you give respect, you usually get respect.

It must be extremely tough.

We have allowed the ignorance of fundamentalism to infect our government. It has spread like a plague since the days of Ronald Reagan.

With the last election we made great headway in eradicating this disease of ignorance from our government, but we have a long ways to go yet.

It depends where in the US. I live on a college campus so I don't even feel like a minority. It seems where people are more educated there is more tolerance.

Defniitely the bible belt area. Mississippi is terrible and nonetheless lives 100 and fifty years behind everywhere else. Florida is somewhat undesirable too. rather, in simple terms utilising down one street, i need to bypass 4 or 5 church homes interior the span of a mile. @ Magpie - certain, Polk county blatantly disregards the separation of church and state and that judd guy is undesirable!!! what's ironic is that the nearest county to me (it truly is Polk) is the in worry-free words position that has finished nude, finished liquor strip golf equipment. (I stated as round to places even as attempting to regulate a bach. get mutually). As holier than thou they are, they are those with the immorality apparently.

well it does not bother me nobody really calls me out for being an atheist people say stuff like "God bless you" all the time but i don't care it does not bother me i just smile and wave and think about the big surprise after death

Not for me. Where I live few people actually care about others' beliefs.

No, it's not tough at all. I don't take crap from anyone.

I'm not to worried about the politics either.