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In America. In the mid-west. Is this a joke?
I can't tell if you're being serious or not but there are a lot of people who do not want to "come out" as atheists because of discrimination and complete misunderstanding of what being an atheist is. They are afraid of being disowned by their families, friends, or loved ones. They are afraid of discrimination. I mean its not much different from being, say, Jewish or Muslim in america.
Actually. in the case of Judaism at least, it's probably worse to be atheist.
As a completely obvious example - there is exactly one elected member of congress who is an outed atheist. Compared to 14 Jewish congressmen. With the education level of the average U.S. congressperson its statistically improbably that only one is an atheist. Its way more likely that some of them are pretending to be religious because they know it would be incredibly difficult to be elected as an atheist.
Like, when I first heard about God I laughed my ass off, thinking it was a joke or something.
-He originally told the school that he would be getting the ACLU involved if they went through with the prayer. In the letter he only used his initials, but the administration found out who it was and outed him to the whole school
-He has received death threats
-Someone took a video of the rehearsal and put it on youtube. The student who was originally going to be giving the invocation (now the moment of silence) chosen to say to hell with the law and say a prayer anyway.
If you are in the American South or any rural area, it's best to not be too vocal about being an atheist. The shear fact that you exist is not taken well by the people who live there
Honestly not joking. I've just never witnessed discrimination against atheists personally, I guess! Which is weird because I live in a fairly conservative, rural area.
Ugh yes let's take a telephone survey article where they don't list the exact questions asked as absolute truth, because those results can always be trusted.
This isn't to say that it's unlikely atheists are highly untrusted by the majority populace, or that the article doesn't have a good general message on education, it's just that unless you know exactly what the questions being asked are study results like this mean fuck all. Poor or vague wording on a survey question can color the answer and then you can just throw down whatever results you want.
Yeah, in the pacific northwest
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those godless pinko commie bastard Russians
in a county that hasn't voted for a Democrat for President in the last forty years
but yeah, I see your point
I can't imagine what it would be like to live in an area like that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNGGNomLx_c
she said it was terrible
Your sister was luck she made it out of the state.
We was all ready to party with the pitchforks and torches before she bounced.
Tell her to write us sometime. We don't hold grudges.
Much.
Is it said that this is Dayton Ohio?
I know Butters and other northerners like to think we're basically northern Alabama down here, but I have never seen something like this, and not all of us talk like they do.
I'm going to say it's in Missouri or Mississippi or something.
Maybe even Kentucky.
Please, don't tell me it's Ohio.
you're scaring me, Ohio
If this was the exact question asked, as in "Would you disapprove of your child's wish to marry an x" over and over again for each different group then sure. It's just so easy to color a survey to your liking that I have difficulty trusting any of them.
Again though, just on general principle the article has a good point in getting friendly atheists to speak out. Part of the problem likely doesn't even lie in the whole not believing in God thing. It's the view some have that all atheists are pompous assholes about it.
All my family is from Appalachia and this city had large numbers of them move up here during and after the war. That's why people call it Hamiltucky.
But still, they were pretty bad.
oww, my braaaaaiiiin
http://accent.gmu.edu/
Might find something on there.
I don't even care what sex they are.
Well, that's your problem, not the study's. If you actually read what the researchers said, you'll see that they were expecting Muslims to be the group picked on, and put atheists in as a throwaway, so I really doubt they were somehow influencing the participants to distrust atheists 8 to 1 over African Americans.
"some have", huh.
I listened to the one from my general area and it sounds completely normal.
Maybe it would sound weird from the outside or something?
So I know this was a couple pages up but I wanted to bump this quote tree to spread a bit of history.
The reason the for the German word Kaiser and the Russian Tsar comming into being is at the heart of some interesting history.
Charlamagne became the first Holy Roman Emperor, crowned by the Pope. Following this tradition, all German emperors took the title of "Caesar" because they were considered to be the inheritants of the Roman Empire.
However, as we all know the power of the Roman Empire shifted from Rome to Byzantium courtesy of Constantine I about 1500 years ago. When the Schism erupted, you had two separate peoples claiming to be the true "descendants" of the Roman Empire. You had the Latin/Germanic Holy Roman Empire and the more-or-less Grecian Byzantine Empire. The Latins being Catholic, and the Greeks being Orthodox, naturally. You also have a brief period when in 1204 the Fourth Crusade seized Constantinople and declared a French nobleman to be the new Emperor, establishing a brief Catholic Latin "Roman" Empire.
When the Ottoman Turks sacked Constantinople and effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Sultans called themselves the Emperors of Rum, which was their word for "Rome." They had gone and claimed that they, having possession of Constantinople and the former seat of the Eastern Roman Empire, were the new and proper owners of the title of "Caesar" though they didn't really use it much.
In response to this the Russians, now being the most populous and powerful Orthodox state, went ahead and called the Ottoman claim invalid, and began to call their Emperors "Tsars."
So basically you have people after people, on through the march of history, each getting progressively less Roman with each iteration, claiming to be the "New Roman Empire."
Fun fucking times.
Fair enough on the first point.
On the second point, yes, some have. I supposed I could have used "most have" instead but frankly I don't believe that most people even think about it enough to form an opinion. Was using the rolleyes emoticon really so necessary for punctuation that you had to go grab it from your photobucket?
and I used it because you were being unbelievably passive aggressive. If you think atheists are pompous assholes, say it yourself like a big boy. Weren't you just talking about how ultrabad it is to manipulate public opinion to express your own views?
Question: Is there any way an atheist could debate a theist without the theist believing the atheist was a pompous asshole?
we had some.. christian... thing.. at primary school with veggie tales and shit
I just never ever thought anybody actually believed it until I was about 10 or so? It was weird
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I wouldn't say the whole thing is scary. I just found it funny that the first words that girl said commenting on evolutionary theory was "It has to be proven!"
What was rather D:-worthy was when at the end that mouth-breather comments that it doesn't make sense because black people have different skin.
Sigh. Some people's kids...
I was just like
WHAT THE FUCK
Well at least up here in the North West.