RE: Why is it so hard to be openly atheist in today's world
February 21, 2015 at 2:43 am
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2015 at 2:56 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(February 19, 2015 at 7:21 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Europe is truly much better in that respect...
For the most part, the subject doesn't come up.
If it does, you just say you don't believe and it ends there... unless you push it...
Oddly enough, that's just what I do here, with the same results.
(February 20, 2015 at 1:31 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: When I called it a theocracy I may have been exaggerating a little, just going off things I have read in the press (not the most accurate source of information I know!) Here in the UK I can't imagine the subject ever coming up at a job interview or something like that. (I only found out a week or so ago that a guy I have worked with for over 10 years was religious... the subject has never been mentioned)
It only comes up in job interviews here if the job is for a religious organization. Outside of that, it is illegal for interviewers to ask an applicant about his or her religion, and illegal for a supervisor to discriminate on that basis, for that matter. Scroll down to §2000e-2 (a) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
You're right that the press doesn't portray shit accurately. It's true that America is more religious than most European countries, but it's not true that it is an oppressive situation ... although that sort of stuff might get headlines.
