BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BEER VOLCANO?

I'm an atheist. But if somebody asks me about my faith, I'll tell them that I'm FSM and hopefully throw them off. Lots of people don't know what FSM is, so it's much less confontational than saying "I'm an atheist!". Coming out as an atheist is much scarier than coming out as a homo or as a black. When you come out as an atheist, people assume that:

You hate puppies

You think Jesus is a dirty hippy

You want the terrorists to win

You drive a Toyota Prius

I think my beliefs are well summarized in Sam Harris' book, Letter to a Christian Nation. It describes how atheists are actually moral people and how we rarely kick puppies*. Buy the book from Chapters or download the audiobook.

Finally, a timely quote from the book:

We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God’s teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father’s doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21).