Black, atheist and living in the South
"I couldn't find anything on television but religious programming,” says Burchall, 38, a former Christian minister and agricultural consultant who moved from Long Beach, California, to Atlanta for work in 2010, “And I thought, 'Oh my God, where am I? Is this all that is on television here?'"
And he quickly found other differences from West Coast living.
"I was not used to meeting someone for the first time and having their first question be ‘what church do you go to?’"
Burchall’s proud response to such queries was, “None.” He is part of an increasingly visible minority – black atheists living in the Bible Belt.
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http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/08/black-atheist-and-living-in-the-south/
Pretty interesting article.
Whenever I think I have it hard as a white male atheist out here in the West, I can only imagine what black women non-believers have to go through in the Bible Belt...
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I hope and pray you'll....no shit not that either....
Hard to use common cliches for concern over your safety and plight without resorting to religious ones. You are probably wise in being more open about sexuality than atheism though.
Presuming you are liberal also (or you are unlikely to be here) I just hope you at least follow college football and don't speak French. If the opposite applies we need to put you in for a hazardous duties pay increase....
I speak Spanish. We are both mostly ambivalent towards college football. We somehow survive. We live in a medium sized city and attitudes are changing (at least about the gay part). I have no gauge about how general attitudes are about non-belief here, other than people just assume you are christian by default and a common question is "what church do you go to?" At least we don't live out in the boonies. 
It's nice to know there are other atheists about!
