Most of all, I wondered if I really needed to stay camouflaged forever. Could there be a way to admit what I believed while holding on to my family and friends? I didn’t know, so I asked the Internet. Using a website called reddit, I wrote a post that included more personal details than anything I’d posted in the past. I asked what losing my faith would mean to me, my family, and my community. I was terrified that I’d get found out by doing this, so I softened my language. Instead of telling the truth—that I was an atheist pretending to be a Christian—I said I was a Christian on the verge of
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