Everything I had to learn about Christianity when young was not a choice, it was forced on me. As you grow old, you learn to cope with it and to pick proper battles. It's a process. The older you grow then you get to the point where being polite is just off the table and you make clear you don't have a problem to shove a Bible up main stream to certain people. Do I care about having someone offset about this? You make your own conclusions

I was raised Catholic, but over the years I let it all go. I've known some really strange, scary evangelicals that are so out there that they seemed mental cases. Then some really nice, sincere, gentle believers that makes you wonder if there's really something to all this, but to believe/have faith is different from practicality. Ppl are shot in church on Sunday during their service! I think the gods of belief are what we'd like to be, not what is. And what is may be nothing. We don't go to heaven and meet some white haired god. We just die. Some ppl with near death experiences say their dead relatives met them. Why not some Neanderthal? Or a yak? So blend in? Oh, I respect others religious stances and even go to services with them. Live and let live. But for me? It seems a waste to go through your life living for some prize (heaven) at the end and sacrifice your life for a "maybe." Roll the dice. Have fun. Have some wine!!?

Heck, I was RAISED in it so I can blend in if I choose to. Generally I make no special effort though, and I don't have to deal with the social nuttery of the Bible Belt.

I've learned a lot about many different religions, but never to "blend in." I've studied because I find it fascinating. The fact that there is no god is the most obvious observation. I'm intrigued as to what others see in religion and why.

Have you ever felt like researching pedophilia so you can fit in with pedophiles? No, this doesn't have anything to do with Catholic preists.

No. I wouldn't waste my time learning that stuff.

I was raised Catholic, so I do know more than enough about it. And I actually read the Bible cover to cover. But I certainly wouldn't try to along and pretend to buy into whatever delusion others might be spouting. At most, I might say "it seems to be working for you", or something general like that. I won't deliberately upset someone unless they engaged and attacked first.

I've read the bible cover-to-cover twice, and in college studied it as a work of literature, an entire course. I also know a reasonable amount about the history of the faith (and other ideas and belief systems), how they spread and critically, how this dovetails and supports the economic and political conditions of the era(s). In a subject this important I like to know what I am talking about. I never argue dogma or superstitious nonsense, I do discuss history, how the faith evolved, the overlap between the three middle eastern theistic faiths. Want to set a fundamentalist off? Tell her Judaism is god 1.0, Christianity is 2.0 and Islam is 3.0. And calmly explain , the overlap, the consistency, the similarities. They experience brain lock, and if intolerant or stupid or both, anger. Be ready to duck

No. I would NEVER do that.