You might consider emphasizing that you are still a good person; that you still love the people around you; that you don't reject the people around you just because your reject their belief.

Thanks for that. I will.

15 months from devoutly religious to atheist and rationalist is rather impressive speed. I wish you good luck.

Well, aspiring rationalist at least. I was, after all, the one voter who said he'd not read the sequences...

As I mentioned above, I like to think I was already an analytical, rational-esque type, just perhaps not with eyes opened to religion. Some thoughts on that HERE.

When doubt arose about Christianity, one of my very first thoughts was that an objective test would be to suspect its falsehood and attempt to prove it back to myself. I even thought this with faith -- if god is real and true, there's no way I could end up at a conclusion of "not god."

For whatever reason, believers didn't think this was a good approach...