(February 28, 2018 at 11:48 pm)stretch3172 Wrote:(February 28, 2018 at 11:45 pm)Jenny A Wrote: People doing real research usually give real names, credentials, and the name of the institution they are working for.
This is not going to be published. It is simply a "practice" project required by my program at Columbia International University.
Ah, so for us it's truly a complete waste of time. But if you actually want to learn something about atheists, I have a few suggestions.
You shouldn't just want to know if we have a good relationship with our families, you should also want to know if we've told our families we are atheist. Also you should want to know if coming out changed our relationship with our families and just how religious or not our families are. You might also want to know what the family religion is. We have ex Muslims, Jews, Hindus , etc. here.
Better not to assume we all have or are getting college degrees.
Country of residence and origin is important. This is a rather internationally flavored forum. Europe is mostly secular . The U.S.A. not so much though it's more and less so depending on where in the country you are. And then there are theocracies where atheism is a crime, a capital one in several places. Not to horn in on the whole martyr thing, but it is so.
You might ask the same questions of theists for comparison.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
