[quote=Blogstar]Scaredy, You are flip flopping again. Once atheists should be quiet and not rock the boat then they should demand that society remove the negative stigma.[/quote]

individually you benefit by shutting up. that si the course i advise my kids, and they are way more outwardly conservative and conformist than i am.

societally, it is better to speak out. for someone else to speak out though.

kind of like how consumer spending is good for the conomy, but its probably better individually to save.