Ages of Athiests

[Minimalist]

Right. Fuck 'em.

[pocaracas]

So the purpose of this thread is to tell your age?
meh... harvested in 1980....

[max-greece]

I believe there is a skew in the demographics, both in terms of atheists being younger and forum/computer users being younger. I do not, however, think it has anything to do with any hypothetical relationship between lack of knowledge and wisdom and a resultant lack of religious belief. It's my impression, and I believe studies bear this out, that atheists as a whole are some of the most knowledgable and intelligent people you will meet. I don't know whether the purpose of your questions was to probe that hypothesis specifically or to answer some larger questions about atheists and atheism as a whole, but I think that specific question can be answered in the negative.

Oh, and I too am an old fuck, fwiw.


(ETA: However, I'm not an atheist, so that only relates to your perception of the ages of forum members here. There are facilities for creating polls; you could make one and see who responds.)

(ETA2: I made a logical error. [I'm old. I get to do that.] While the youthful demographic profile may not imply anything negative about the knowledge and intelligence of atheists in general, that does not imply anything in the specific case. It may not be true that, in general, atheists are lacking in intelligence and knowledge, but that does not necessarily imply that you and your atheism specifically are not a result of stupidity and rebellion. The fact that you're an atheist doesn't necessarily mean that you're not a twat.)

But are you more likely, or less likely, to be a twat if you are a theist?

[rexbeccarox]

I'll be 37 next month... crap.

[Tonus]

It seams rather strange to me but it looks like the common age group of Atheists on this site is around 16 - 25.

We just appear to be young because we seem so cool.

I turned 45 last week, so I'm almost at the halfway point. Deconverted at some point over the past ten years, realized it for sure a couple of years ago.

[Lemonvariable72]

Holy shit I'm still a child.
I'm only 22 and gave up religion around my birthday.

[Crossless2.0]

I'm 46 and have identified as an atheist for about 30 years.

[Faith No More]

So the purpose of this thread is to tell your age?

No, people started sharing their age to prove the assumptions in the OP wrong.

[Cyberman]

Turned 44 just the other week (by the way, Min and Tonus, happy birthday - you kept that quiet!). I'd like to say I've been an atheist my whole adult life but I'll have to get back to you when I grow up.

But are you more likely, or less likely, to be a twat if you are a theist?

I think it was Pat Condell who said something like "religion is the perfect hiding place for the scoundrel", echoing of course Steven Weinberg's point. Then again that sounds a bit too pollite to be one of his.

[freedomfromforum]

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Therefore, I am