It's not nearly as bad as it is in some small European towns..I've seen places where one would thing the crusade, or inquisition, witch trials, never ended
How bad is it to be Atheist in America?
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I could go on and on about how the religious right has become nothing more than an extension of the Republican elite. And I don't want them turning America into a theocracy any more than I want Atheists to ban religion from public institutions. Don't misunderstand, I think they're wrong and misguided, but I still think it's OK to allow religion to be a factor- in principle. I can't imagine when I'd get the chance to read Plato's Euthyphro, but I'll definitely put it on my list.CapnGod said:
I work for a Christian non-profit company and am very openly Aetheist and no one gives me trouble about it or tries to convert me. And if they did I'd just say, "Well then if you believe in God, you must also believe in hell. Please feel free to go there now." The right wing nutjobs keep to their own communities and Utah for the most part though.
Vortigar said:As long as you don't bring it up there shouldn't be a problem. Which is really the crux of the debate I think. Believe whatever you want but don't be evangelical about it or flaunt it in people's faces.
If you get into a debate about it either you or the one you are talking to made some kind of mistake beforehand.
True, all forgot about thatsebar nl said:
Well, there's our Bible belt...
I'm an atheist and i'm in high school and im in a highly religious area mainly Christians and people try to pick fights with me only because in my freshman year it got around that i'm an atheist. They throw rocks and call me names so all in all just DON'T LET IT SLIP.
It's not particularly bad. The most annoying thing for me are the attempts made by Christians to convert me, or at least convince me of the existence of god. There are only so many times I can hear the variations of the Ontological, Cosmological, and Teleological arguments for the existence of god before I want to smother someone. If I hear one more christian try to prove an "unmoved mover" I'm going to bludgeon him to death with a copy of Nicomachean Ethics.
That was terribly nerdy, so in case anyone's wondering: Aristotle wrote Nicomachean Ethics, and was the one to propose a proof of god based on the fact that (due to our understanding of causality) there must be an unending sequence of causes and effects going back to the beginning of existence, wherein there must be something which caused, but itself had no cause. This "unmoved mover" would be god.
That was terribly nerdy, so in case anyone's wondering: Aristotle wrote Nicomachean Ethics, and was the one to propose a proof of god based on the fact that (due to our understanding of causality) there must be an unending sequence of causes and effects going back to the beginning of existence, wherein there must be something which caused, but itself had no cause. This "unmoved mover" would be god.
Phew, Try joining the US Military.. Gah... We get our wonderful religious belief stamped on our dog-tags... Mine; No Religious Preference. The shear amount of bible-humpers is staggering. But, In the intelligence community, Not so bad.. lol kinda of ironic actually.. But, So far in the civilian life, Not a big deal at all, unless of course you publicize it, lets say.. the back of your vehicle. Then, anybody, secular to non-secular is asking for others opinions... But, overall: Military = Hard time; Civilian = Not even an issue. Just my two cents.
I don't know about Atheism in America, But it's a fuck being an Objectivist in Britain, Y'know, the socialism and all the public welfare crap, oh, and we seem to get huge arseholes like this [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163510/All-homosexuals-stoned-death-says-Muslim-preacher-hate.html] in the merry ol' isles.
