From Salon:

It was Sunday morning in my scruffy Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood, and I was wearing a dress. Walking to the subway, I ran into a friend heading home from yoga class. She wore sweats and carried her mat over her shoulder. “Where are you going so early all dressed up?” she asked, chuckling. “To church?” We shared a laugh at the absurdity of a liberal New Yorker heading off to worship.

The real joke? I totally was.

Inside the church, it’s cool and quiet. I read the Collect of the day in the Book of Common Prayer, which urges us: “While we are placed among 
things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall
 endure.” My recent layoff no longer seems like the end of the world. I take Communion and exchange the peace and listen to the sermon. As I’m walking back up the aisle, I feel reoriented and calmer, the indignities of the week shift into perspective.

These moments are not only sacred; they are secret. Outside, on the steps of the downtown Manhattan church, I think I see someone familiar coming down the sidewalk, and I bolt in the other direction.

Why am I so paranoid? I’m not cheating on my husband, committing crimes or doing drugs. But those are battles my cosmopolitan, progressive friends would understand. Many of them had to come out—as gay, as alcoholics, as artists in places where art was not valued. To them, my situation is far more sinister: I am the bane of their youth, the boogeyman of their politics, the very thing they left their small towns to escape. I am a Christian.

Read it all here.

Very interesting article.

The comments on the originating site are fascinating. Atheists complaining that there are so many believers that think they are oppressed. Several people that identify strongly with the author. The parody of Christianity that many ridicule is especially interesting.

This comment is worth quoting:

I really wish “liberal Christians”

would lay off atheists….

and turn their anger on the people who actually have [sic] coopted their religion…and corrupted it beyond recognition.

Atheists owe liberal Christians nothing.

However, it never fails for these [sic] socalled liberals to attack atheists with a zeal which would impress Pat Robertson.

Efforts of certain well know retired bishops (and many others - including most of TEC(?)) to make Christianity palatable to the secular are doomed to fail.