Outcasts in Zion!

[Outcasts]

Hello Happy Atheist Forums, I've just done a Google search for you, because I figured you must exist.

So I've started up a new podcast (or is it technically a video cast? I'm not sure) called "Outcasts in Zion". We've been making videos for just over two months now and we've already got 40+ videos up on Youtube, but we don't seem to be gaining any ground in regards to views/subscriptions. So I was hoping that users here on the forums might help by checking out our Youtube page and watching some videos and possibly subscribing to our channel and sharing the videos with others that you think might like them.

The goal of Outcasts in Zion is to not only poke our fingers in the eyes of the local religious majority here in Salt Lake City, UT but we are also trying to let local Atheists and various other non-believers that there is a community here for them, and they are not alone. This is largely important to me because when I came out as an Atheist here in SLC I felt very alone.

Thanks for reading my spiel, I look forward to chatting at you all soon!

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[DeterminedJuliet]

Errmmm, posting links on your first visit is usually frowned upon. But welcome! Do you plan on sticking around HAF, or did you just want to let us know about your podcast?

[McQ]

Hello, Outcasts. Welcome to the forum and thanks for the introduction. We hope you'll have fun here. While you're familiarizing yourself with the forum, take a look over the rules and guidelines. I've removed your link because we don't allow those types of things until a member has been a bit more established with our 10 Post rule.

See you around the threads!

Notes for new members.
The Rules.

Users who comply with forum rules will graduate to full membership after 10 posts.
Till that time your ability to post is limited to the "Getting to Know You" section of the forum.
It is our hope that this small restriction improves the overall atmosphere of HAF.

Some threads you might find interesting.
Where did you get your username from?
10 Things About Yourself
Tell us A Bit About Where You're From
Photography
Non-religious pet peeves
Pets...what do you have?
Favorite Song, with video
How to tell your family you are an atheist.*
"Rules for Conducting a Discussion" by Dr. Mortimer J. Adler*

*You will need 10 posts before you can add a post to this thread, but you can read it at any time.
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[Amicale]

Welcome, Outcasts. I hope you enjoy HAF, and that you stick around.

[xSilverPhinx]

Welcome, if this isn't a post and run.

[The Magic Pudding]

Hello

[Tank]

Hi

It can't be fun to be an atheist in SLC. I know a couple and they have a hard time.

As has been pointed out promotional links in your first 10 posts are frowned on, which you would have known if you had read the rules. This forum is not a promotional base for anti-theist views. It's a small community of people who get on quite well most of the time. Most are atheists, but it's not compulsory.

Welcome to HAF

Regards
Chris

[Sweetdeath]

Welcome to HAF. hope you actually stick around.

[McQ]

Sadly, looking like another "post and run" advertising attempt. Sounds interesting though.

[Outcasts]

No, its actually not that hard being an Atheist in Utah, I think you'd be surprised. For all the silly flaws that the LDS Church has, they are strangely tolerant of others usually, at least to your face I guess.

[Amicale]

No, its actually not that hard being an Atheist in Utah, I think you'd be surprised. For all the silly flaws that the LDS Church has, they are strangely tolerant of others usually, at least to your face I guess.

Glad to see you here again.

I've also heard this about Utah, that if you're not Mormon, the Mormons there don't appear to try really hard to drag you into their fold. I don't know why they're more casual/tolerant about it, though -- can you tell me? Is it that they're just not that extreme, or is it more that they figure atheists are damned permanently, so why bother, type of thing?

[Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism]

 Welcome to the forum outcast.

[Outcasts]

I think they used to drag people really hard into their fold, I've lived here in Salt Lake for just over 20 years now. When I first got here in the late 80's it seemed like the local missionaries were really aggressive in coming to people's houses. I had heard that they look do see where church members live and any address not in their records they figure houses non-mormons and hence that's who they would go and talk too but I don't know if this is really true. Either way, they seemed to have backed off.

I've read more than one report in the last few years that have talked about how the LDS church has lost a lot of members, (they only keep 1 in 4 converts after the first year, it used o be 1 in 2), they claim to have 14 million members worldwide, but census data reveals that they only have 5 million "active" members. Due to things like this, it seems like they focus on keeping their own house in order as much as they can anymore. They still proselytize, but I've not heard of missionaries bothering people local to SLC unless you invite them over.

They really seemed to have backed off, but then, they are also getting a lot of scrutiny these days, and its not being kind to them.

And I enjoy being a thorn in their side.