This sounds like an alien landscape to me. Up here in Canada it’s so different as to be almost completely opposite in very many ways. Our Born Againsters have marginal political power at every level and so even nationally they wouldn’t dare campaign against rolling back access to abortion, for example. Or LGBQT rights. Try it and they’d get killed at the polls, and they know it. So they keep their heads down when out in public. And the teaching of creationism/intelligent design would get them laughed off the playing field. Might be somewhat different in smaller towns and rural areas...but even there our so-called Socialist Health Care System is a highly cherished and valued fact of life. And religion is a seldom discussed issue in everyday life. Unbelievers are everywhere, and in our culture secularism has the upper hand. So we’ve definitely got a lot more in common with Europe than the US.

you could move maybe?

My biggest pet peeve is that others want to put their god into their politics. This is all a big laugh to me but the others all think their Jesus had something to do with America and their proof is in their bible. Then Revelation is linked to other books to prove it, etc. Think a moment. Revelation. The book name itself makes you want to proclaim something. It is ridiculous!

I hear you. So here you are, on this site, where....you can talk about politics if desired, but you can also talk about dogs, or gardening, or nature, or art, music, underwater basket-weaving, whatever. It is a good thing.

We are close to the same age. I am in a middling deep South town, as my moniker suggests.
(Are you IN San Antonio or in a small community in the general vacinity? I ask, because big cities ALL have significant secular connections if you just make a point of looking for them.)
I am surrounded by just as much Xtian magical thinking permeating every aspect of the culture. But I have been able to find like-minded people. It makes a very welcome difference.

I think part of it has come with my own transformation over time, gradually shifting from being someone concerned first with not offending anyone to now, where I speak my mind much more comfortably, whether it is about my atheism, my queerness, concern for the environment, social justice issues, or liberal/progressive political outlook. That last is, of course, a natural outgrowth of the others. I discovered that, so long as I remember that I am...all of us are, capable of being wrong, but I have every right to speak up about my perspective and how I arrived at it, the people most intolerant of my views have stepped back, and I have found more who appreciate at least significant parts of my views. Life is too short to not stand up for what we care about.

I feel you. I live in an area populated by Qtards and Qpublican Evangelicals. I'm surprised the city council doesn't have me arrested every time I try to leave town for taking 98% of the cumulative IQ with me. I stay to myself. Got one buddy I kinda work with and a couple of gym bros but thats it.

Religion and politics should not be discussed unless of course unless of course you are with like minded people.

Yeah, only in the USA this is going on.

They would just love seeing some of these!! A few years ago I got some not so nice looks wearing the “Cross and Boomerang” shirt when visiting a friend in North Carolina.

Consider how fortunate you are not to be delusional. It's a rare commodity. Start a Zoom group making your invitations carefully. We all need validation sometimes, and we all need intellectual stimulation that isn't stifled by Christian Nationalists.

Yea, I know what you mean Gsanders55. I've lived in Georgia my entire life and there's a church about every 100 yards around here. There are times I wish I could move to a more sane part of the world.