(August 26, 2008 at 5:47 am)BettyValentine Wrote: There was a thread on atheist discrimination on the old site that i found quite interesting so i thought i'd start a new one.
I think it was Richard Dawkins who wrote about the studies conducted that showed in America, people would prefer a black, muslim, gay woman than an atheist for president. (Please feel free to correct me, i apologise if this information is not precisely correct, it was a while since i read it - but you get the point).
Personally, i have experienced a lot of discrimination for my atheism most of life as both a child and adult - even from people who claim they're not religious but view atheism as a 'bleak and un-intelligent' belief. The people who have these views however, are grossly uneducated about atheism or perhaps influenced by the negative a false depictions of atheists made by a Christian dominated society.
What about everyone else? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
As if there was anything wrong with those things to begin with.
But anyways, I'd still say being any one of those things is more oppressive then being atheist. C'mon, let's not compare being atheist to being black. A person can't hide the color of their skin. And sooner or later, the homosexual is gonna have to come out of the closet 'cause they can't spend the rest of their life hiding the life they share with their partner. Even a religious person can't hide that fact forever 'cause somebody is going to see them enter a religious place of worship.
The only atheists I know that find it difficult to function in the regular every day business of life are the ONES WHO MAKE IT THEIR LIFE'S MISSION to argue with the religious every chance they get. Some atheists talk about religion as much as the religious. Some talk about it even more than the religious.
