tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post4889873772970844565..comments2023-09-25T04:26:51.568-06:00Comments on The Barefoot Bum: Coming outLarry Hamelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-86617875792498463772007-07-29T23:52:00.000-06:002007-07-29T23:52:00.000-06:00I realize that a lot of people have a problem doin...I realize that a lot of people have a problem doing this. I've never really understood it though. If we lived in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan I would get it. But here in the U.S., it just seems so simple. I've been doing it for 35 years (since I was 19).<BR/><BR/>Maybe I haven't had anything to lose and can't see it from the position of someone who is worried about their career. But I think folks would find that being honest can have as many upsides as the problems that could come with announcing ones atheism.John Evohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10868904051881865159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-60885898830106127172007-07-29T23:49:00.000-06:002007-07-29T23:49:00.000-06:00This a great post. Thanks. Especially the point th...This a great post. Thanks. Especially the point that you don't have to be religious to be aware of your own spirituality [a basically HUMAN component].<BR/><BR/>If, when I find myself in some unknown world beyond this one, and discover that there is a god after all, I shall say to him, her or it "How COULD you?"anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.com