Can you consider Atheism an ethnicity

[UniverseCaptain]

My (late) father bought me a copy of The God Delusion for my 21st birthday, yet later "converted" to Christianity. Did he change his ethnicity? Is that possible? A dunno...

I suggest you research the relationship between ethnicity and religion including recognised ethnic religions from a social standpoint . The deciding factor is all of this is made up so I don’t see why I can’t do this personally, I think it can be made that basic.

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Ethnicity seems quite vague to me as it’s made up so thought I’d ask. I think Atheism is quite a big thing to have in common if you don’t identify ethnically elsewhere, just an idea anyway

Are you just using a basic dictionary definition for ethnicity? Or are you using an actual scholarly definition for it? Basic dictionary is going to give you something vague because it's offering a basic usage for a word.

What would be the defining attributes of atheism as an ethnicity? What would separate atheism from other ethnicities?

Not thought about defining it. I just posted this without much thought since I don’t align with any of the ethncities. An atheist wouldn’t have to be ethnically atheist, they might cpnsoder themselves to be ethnically something else and still an atheist. I still think it should be a thing if you don’t identify ethnically elsewhere. I think that opens it up enough to be a thing, not read scholarly papers though

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But the way some mixed / biracial people identify as one specific race (or two or more out of multiple) and it’s socially allowed. Not sure how this is really any different as an idea ,
Not to mention they let people identify as all sorts of different genders and non binary genders now. The real thing is even if you don’t think of yourself as ethnically Atheist I don’t see why it shouldn’t be allowed at this point . I believe any atheist could also be more than one ethnicity too because of this (if atheism is recognised ethnically). It’s a question if Brian is right and then no ethnicity is wiser - not sure what repercussions no ethnicity has socially either though hence the thread. I will treat this like the moon landing. The first or one of the first to identify as ethnically atheist.

Think I’ve said enough! Nothing else to add so it can be a free for all now ha ha