Quote Originally Posted by Brenus View Post
“Same reason why straight middle class youth need to have their atheism be their identity. They have no idea how to build up character so they just pick one aspect of themselves that they use to filter life through.” I never hear an atheist starting a sentence by “I am atheist” but several time I heard “I am Christian”. Probably because Christians are less secure.
Go to tumblr or reddit and you will see plenty of "I am an atheist." In fact they are even less secure than Christians because they are too afraid to even go outside and talk about their lack of faith, instead they just brood in online forums.
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Also, it is probably mostly an American youth thing since we still actually have the religiosity thing going on here.