Yeah, it's pretty difficult, but not impossible. Where did you guys move here from?

I'm a local (Branson) but left for about 15 years. Came back as an atheist/agnostic and felt like an outcast. I picked up religion to be part of the crowd. Then I began to believe it. I drank that cool aid for a long time, but my spirit wasn't there. So many questions, and things that just didn't align. I felt I wasn't being authentic to myself, but at the same time I wrestled with still believing a spiritual side of me exists...and still do. And I've finally landed at a place that would be described as spiritual but not religious....but put on the mask in the community to avoid the shun or ridicule that I think would happen if people knew the real me. Friends know, but work associates probably not so much.