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Thursday, June 2, 2011

More Tulsans enter the 21st Century.

As far as I can tell, this simply couldn't have happened in the Tulsa (and its suburb Broken Arrow) I knew in the 1970's and 1980's:

Billboards allow atheists to 'come out of the closet'







Fortunately the internet, and now the trendy social media, have made it easier for irreligionists to find each other. I became an atheist in 1974, so in a way I entered the 21st Century well ahead of the calendar; but I didn't know any other atheists for years. (Paraphrasing Mohandas Gandhi, I became the change I wanted to see in the world.) I knew a religious-obsessive girl in high school who married a preacher after she graduated from OSU in 1982. She and preacher hubby recently moved from Ponca City back to Tulsa to start a new church, as if Tulsa needed yet another one. I can just imagine her consternation when she drives around town and sees those billboards.

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