I Get Picked At School For Being An Atheist. What Can I Do?

Question

http://conspiracycentral.info/index.php?showtopic=4564

i give you a link because my post is bigger than 1000 characters.

Please give some advice

Answer 1

A couple thoughts without reading your link...

1) you are going to a religious school
2) you are shoving your religion down other peoples throats and causing conflict

I'm not being sarcastic but am honestly & seriously trying to give you some brainstorms. There are probably other options.

Answer 2

After reading your link, I felt really sad. It doesn't seem that you have been treated with compassion at all. Some of the people on this site have also not treated you with much compassion either.

This kid is 15, people, consider your answers.

It does take a long time to figure out what you believe and, unlike one person said, a lot of people do announce they are gay as they wish to live honestly and openly. Whether you agree with that lifestyle choice or not, is not the point, it is honest to let people know where you stand.

It appears that your principal has read your behaviour as disrespectful, which often happens. As he was happy to talk to you privately before about your beliefs, see if you can approach him again. Apologise for being late, it doesn't matter what anyone else was doing, if you are wrong, you are wrong (even if everyone else has done it too, it doesn't make it right), and tell him it wasn't meant as a form of disrespect.

You never know, he may just have been having a bad day. He may have also seen your behaviour as deliberately disrespectful, hence why he yelled at you and not the others. You just need to clarify that, so that there is an obvious mutual respect. He may be misinterpreting your behaviour, maybe you're misinterpreting his.

It sounds like you are wounded a little and the best way to fix an emotional wound is to restore the relationship.

Also, don't make the assumption that the grown up in the room is the most mature. You be mature, you approach him first and see his respect for you increase.

As a Christian teacher, I think I can speak with some authority on that. The pupils who approach me to politely discuss an affront always gain my admiration.

Answer 3

Don't go looking for spiders in the corners of a round room. It is entirely possible that being late was the only thing that brought about being reprimanded for being late.

It seems that your classmates didn't have a problem with your atheism, so just let it go. I'm not saying deny your position, but there's no reason to make an issue of it the way the theists do.

If you are confronted, keep your arguments based in reason and you will prevail. DO NOT attempt to argue with christians using bible quotes unless you have an extensive knowledge of the texts. This is a trap that many atheists set for themselves and then jump into the center of. The bible is so open to interpretation that you will not win, particularly against people who have no more understanding (99%) of their theology than you do.

Answer 4

Good grief there are some vile people posting on this thread. "What did you expect?" "Accept Christ as your saviour"? You people have no moral worth whatsoever and the pity there's no hell is that you won't get to go there for being so full of spite.

The answerer who said know your enemy is right. Stay calm, confident and don't lose eye contact. Poster on this forum are constantly asking about contradictions in the bible. Try them on your tormentors. If they can't answer, you're in a position to say "How come I know more about your relgion than you do?"

Answer 5

Despite the Greek constitution, Greece is a very traditional culture. If you're living there, you probably already know that the word for "regular" and the word for "correct" are the same one. In Greece, the correct thing is to be a believer.

I'd say let your parents talk to the teacher, but don't expect his/her attitude to change. You'll probably have to ride this one out.

Answer 6

I can recommend two things:
1) Keep your disbeliefs to yourself... don't tell anyone your are an atheist. Avoid conversations on the topic.
2) Make believe you belong to a commonly accepted religion and play along. Avoid conversations on the topic also.
Everybody has a right to choose... From childhood to adolescence, girls and boys tend to be obnoxious, intolerant and offensive towards minorities, especially in U.S. schools.

Answer 7

Shunning is one of the tools that superstitionists use to force people to bend to their will. Do not allow them to distort your world view, what they have is a twisted delusional world view based on the accumulated myths and superstitions of their ancestors which have been dogmatized, institutionalized and mounded into the colossal pile of crap they call ultimate truth. You are better than that, stay that way, it is worth it. They will try to silence you, but if you allow that, they win, stay strong, they are just trying to marginalize you because they are no longer allowed to kill atheists.

Answer 8

If it were America, you could sue for a hostile environment. My mom threatened to sue when I was a Wiccan and was recieving death threats from students. She didn't agree with my choice at the time (it was a phase I went through), but she was ready to hire a lawyer if any of those kids so much as touched me.

Answer 9

In the future, if you post is more than a 1000 characters, just use "Ctrl V", :)

Answer 10

Stick to your guns. You are what you are, and you're not going to change because of them.

Getting singled out because you're an atheist is no fun. The above posts are a perfect example why.