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I wish I was kidding. In another forum I'm on, someone actually brought this to the table as 'proof' that Christians were persecuted in the US. Apparently the principal or someone on the school board told the club leaders that they were not allowed to nail up the names of anyone who had not given their permission to have their names put up. Thus, they were trampling on the rights of the Christian students.
I am still waiting on him to give me one real example of Christians being persecuted that either A) isn't just a case of bullying with the fact the victim is Christian is incidental (i.e. - the tormenter is also Christian or all the other Christians in the student body aren't being tormented as well) or B) a cause of the Christian in question being told to stop proselytizing/forcing their faith onto others, or C) an inaccurate or completely unverifiable version of events as told via glurge (also known as - uncited email forwards do not a source make). While I am sure isolated cases exist, he was unable to bring a single case to the table. I've known kids who say they were bullied for being Christian, but... well one such teller actually attended a Christian private school, so even if her Christianity was the sole reason for the bullying, it was other Christians bullying her. I think it was far more likely that she was bullied for being a 4'10" tall, skinny, introverted redhead with glasses, acne, and a love of My Little Pony paraphernalia.
How do you establish a value system when one no longer believes in God.
What is the point of Marriage, and children, and what is the point of our species being so evolved that we can even consider the reasons for this.
Years ago, with my first flock of chickens, I had a cute little mutt chicken I called Aurora. Aurora went broody, and we left her six eggs to sit on. Five of them hatched, and Aurora shepherded her little chicks everywhere proudly. When the chicks were a week old, the neighbor's dog got into the coop. He grabbed one of the chicks, and Aurora went nuts attacking him. She pecked, beat him with her wings, and literally fought to the death in defense of her little chicks, and ultimately her sacrifice meant that we were able to get the dog out of the coop before it got to the other four chicks.
Aurora never went to church or read the bible in her life. She was not part of a particularly evolved species or even particularly intelligent. She got her head caught in the fence at least once a week and once spent two hours arguing with her reflection in a mirror.
Her value system was simple, and it's one I want to share. 'Leave this world a better place than you entered it'. I've never needed god for my value system, or to give importance to my marriage, or to love my son enough that I would kill or die for him. If your value system was a good one, then it is still a good one independent of the church. The so-called 'Golden Rule' existed prior to any established religion and is used by them all.
The advice I would give you with both the general dissatisfaction and the looking for a group to socialize with would be to go back to school, even if it's just a couple classes at the community center.
