Re: About lurkers
Hmm. Actually, my mom was pretty good about letting me know that my choices were my choices. She was a pretty good parent, all things considered. But her beliefs inevitably showed through in her parenting... none of us are perfect, after all.
The situation's a lot more complicated than that, of course (whose isn't) but I'm not about to spill my can of worms on people who don't want the slime. But yeah. I've been atheist for as long as I can remember. So I'm pretty confident about my identity and all that stuff. Most of the baggage is just residual, and the hardest part about overcoming it is realizing it's there... if that makes sense.