It always turns into a grift with these people
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Know Jesus? Still no peas for you!
"It's a bit of a digression but... what is this life if, full of stress, we have no freedom to digress?" --Richard Dawkins,Unweaving the Rainbow |
Unfortunately, the world is just not ready for us. You seen this data, I presume?
ReplyDeletehttp://atheism.about.com/od/atheistbigotryprejudice/a/AtheitsHated.htm
Just generally speaks to the sad state of affairs of all matters of equality really...
Yup, saw that one.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to exaggerate things too much... I think in most places in the US, atheists are more hated in theory than in practice. While it happens, particularly in small town America, you don't see a whole lot of explicitly anti-atheist discrimination in the workplace. And the ease of concealing our (lack of) beliefs -- obviously we shouldn't have to, but we have the option -- means that atheists are not particularly disenfranchised on an individual level (even though as a group we have been excluded from the political process almost completely until fairly recently).
So it's a weird paradox... we are by many measures the most hated minority in America, yet we face very few of the issues other minority groups are forced to confront.
I liked Mike Huckabee's comment about how it's better to be an atheist than lie about faith, because even if you have NO MORAL CENTRE it's better than being a liar.
ReplyDeleteIf someone tells me that God is the foundation of his morals, I'm running away and not looking back, lest I be turned into a pillar of stupid.