When atheists first began to tell significant others about their new identity, this experience can best be described in which of the following ways?

a. Excruciatingly painful, as these people did not accept their atheist identity and made them feel terrible about giving about religion.
b. As commonplace, in which their telling others that they were atheists was met by a series of nonchalant and uncaring reactions by most others.
c. As liberating, a positive experience that tended to produce greater confidence in what they decided and a greater stake in that new identity.
d. There was no one way that atheists experienced their coming out, and all three ways above were seen as examples of ways atheists told others about their new identity.


C

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