(August 21, 2014 at 7:39 am)Tonus Wrote:(August 21, 2014 at 1:35 am)Goosebump Wrote: Basically is there any political, sociological, economical benefit to being Atheist, Agnostic, Gnostic or Deist or any I missed as apposed to being in an organized religion?That depends on your community, although I would not split it along religious and non-religious lines. For example, a deeply-religious community may be less tolerant of an atheist member and that could affect him politically, economically, and so on. But the community may also be less tolerant of a religious person who doesn't represent the local religion (say a Muslim in a mostly Christian community, or even a Protestant in a mostly Catholic community, and so on). But this can be true to a lesser extent if a person who supports a particular sports team lives in a region where his team's rival is extremely popular.
I think it's more a question of demographics than it is of ideology.
That's a benefit or dis-benefit on a very narrow level. However even if you were in such a narrow community but voted for a senator. If you voted your morality would that not be a benefit if it was reflected largely in the population?
