I Came Out as an Atheist Today

Sarah Levis
Nov 1 · 2 min read

It wasn’t at all as awkward as I thought it would be.

Silhouette of woman standing, arms oustretched, on a beach at sunrise
Silhouette of woman standing, arms oustretched, on a beach at sunrise
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Closeted

My family doesn’t know that I’m an atheist, and aren’t like likely to find out here, since they don’t read my Medium writing. I’m not sure that they’d care a whole lot. They know that, for reasons of my own, I stopped going to church about twenty years ago; depending on how much of my writing they actually read (I…

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