No but I've been condescended a few times.
As part of my PhD research I sat in on a number of a theological based discussion groups and attended a number of seminars and conferences that were theological based. I was once asked what my religion was and I said I've always been an atheist and a catholic priest said "oh good for you!" as though I was a child.
IT annoyed me but being professional I just ignored it. You get used to it after a while when you research religion for a (sort of) living. People always invoking a god or a deity of some sort (I study Sikhism) just sort of becomes par the course. But if you mention you don't believe their god, or that you lack a belief in the concept of a deity, then you sort of get a nervous smile or laugh. Religion in the UK is treated with apathy by the majority of the population here and it's something the people I research are working against wherever they can.
As part of my PhD research I sat in on a number of a theological based discussion groups and attended a number of seminars and conferences that were theological based. I was once asked what my religion was and I said I've always been an atheist and a catholic priest said "oh good for you!" as though I was a child.
IT annoyed me but being professional I just ignored it. You get used to it after a while when you research religion for a (sort of) living. People always invoking a god or a deity of some sort (I study Sikhism) just sort of becomes par the course. But if you mention you don't believe their god, or that you lack a belief in the concept of a deity, then you sort of get a nervous smile or laugh. Religion in the UK is treated with apathy by the majority of the population here and it's something the people I research are working against wherever they can.
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