Rick Moen wrote:
1. Self-proclaimed atheism creates social pariah-hood only in the South and a couple of particularly backward middle rural states, notably Oklahoma, -- i.e., the 'Bible Belt'. Notice the locations mentioned: Texas, Missouri, Kentucky, Alabama, Florida. Those are all the Bible Belt. Everywhere you would actually _want_ to live, locations where people's family trees actually fork and people can count to twenty without taking their shoes off, there's no such problem. (There is also no problem even in the better cities of Texas and Florida, such as Austin and Miami.)
_Every_ example the author presents is from the aforementioned religious whack-a-doodle country. No exceptions.
At what point does one stop writing off the entire region as irredeemably loopy, and attempt to uplift them?