Politics, religion and the struggles of a small-town atheist
By Roy Bragg
Updated 05:03 p.m., Wednesday, May 23, 2012
BERGHEIM - It's still a free country, albeit a polarized one. That's especially true when the discussions of politics, government and religion intersect.
You can say what you want, but you suffer the consequences. Your neighbors can like it or lump it or lash out at it. These days, there's a lot more lashing than liking or lumping.
Oak DeBerg, who teaches philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio, has seen a little of it all. Living smack dab in the middle of the predominantly conservative, largely Christian, Texas Hill Country, DeBerg and wife Joellen find themselves strangers in a familiar land.
They are Democrats. They are liberal. And, oh yeah, they're atheists.
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