I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum from Avram: I'm also an atheist, and the only time I've interacted with the clergy since my deconversion has been at family funerals. I don't think my 10 year old has even *met* a member of the clergy (except maybe when fundie grandma dragged her to church during visits). Only a few folks in my (admittedly limited) social milieu are "churched", and they're pretty dang quiet about it.
(Of course, I'm not counting Discordians or Sub-Geniuses, who are pretty thick on the ground in fandom, or my friend who got ordained over the Internet so he could officiate at another friend's wedding. Somehow I don't think we're talking about that class of clergy.)
We've got ESS machines here, but they use the bubble-forms -- built in paper-trail, and eminently hand-countable. (Voting causes SAT flashbacks, but at least I get to use a Sharpie. Any process that involves public use of Sharpies can't be all bad.)
Though my husband and I have previously not affiliated with any political party, we're going to register as Democrats this year and hie ourselves down to the caucuses (spelling!) on February 7th to let the local Democratic party (such as it is) know how we feel. (Disgusted and disenfranchised, mainly.) There's no way in hell we'd fit in with the local Republicans -- heathen unbelievers don't go over very well here. (I thought of sending my husband undercover to the Republican side, but he didn't feel up to it.)
Graydon, Lydia: reading this thread, combined with SAD, has me wanting to crawl under my desk and give up. I can't do that; I've got a kid to think of. Anybody have any ideas what one antisocial nerd (how'd our proprietor put it? "octaroon-Aspergers"?), from the sunless depths of Eastern Washington state, can do?
Contemplate emigration?
Or take the soma and be a good little citizen?
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