Leading yourself, and making your own life decisions is one of the best ways I know of breaking free from the herd mentality. I don't need their acceptance, or their prayers, as I am not a theist and I don't adhere to their worship of an outside entity to oversee my life. I think having the critical thinking processes to make decisions to lead to success in your personal short and long term goals is more important, and the less people know about your goals the better off you are, especially when there are those who like to get in the way of other people's success. I learned a while back to keep my deepest thoughts to myself, as far too often there are those who get their rocks off on undermining others.
@Dread, I have to agree with you there. I hate that lames want to paint Satanists as some bad guy, the one to mock, and scapegoat. It just lends more credence to the Christians, and their belief systems that they are the only ones who are righteous in deed, you don't have to be a criminal to be a Satanist or Luciferian.
I really do have a vendetta against Christians because of their forcing their religion down the throats of others for centuries, so, in all honesty, I'm not going to say I'll always play nice with the Christians, I do only because I know I have to work with them for now and that's until I decide to put my time and energy into an entrepreneurship and strictly barter and trade with those who are likeminded in crytpocurrencies, silver and gold commodities, and linking up at free thinker events, as well as agorists outside of the state and religiosity.