Atheists becoming less unpopular?

[Jehanne]

A turning point in US history, perhaps, when evangelicals will be despised more than atheists:



http://www.gallup.com/poll/183713/social...aling.aspx

[ukatheist]

Not so much related to your post, but the poll itself, it kinda bothers me that there's no white, or male, or conservative, or straight, or non-evangelical protestant options. Is the assumption that they'd all be 100% so no point including them?

Just leaves me thinking that a white, straight, conservative, protestant male is somehow 'the standard' and all the others are somehow a hinderance to some extent.

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[TheRealJoeFish]

Yay! We're less reviled than socialists now!

... but what about atheist socialists?!?!

<shudder>

[Longhorn]

But what about the comrades?

[ukatheist]

If you're a socialist hispanic gay female atheist who has left islam, I don't think your chances of becoming PUSA are too good [emoji20]

[c172]

How bow a PWD?

[vorlon13]

fucking Mormons . . . .

[Regina]

Not to sound like a trashy cunt, but I'm genuinely shocked Muslims rank higher than atheists

I will say overall though, I think it's a positive when most people clearly don't have a problem with the idea of a president who isn't white. 90+% of people saying they'd support a president who isn't white is pretty amazing (and I think debunks this idea that people voting for Trump was some kind of "whitelash").

[Neo-Scholastic]

Maybe because most people do not accept the definition of atheism as lack of belief, in which case they considered atheists opposed to the fundamental principle for justifying inherent human rights as expressed in the Declaration of Independence. If there is no God, there are no inalienable human rights.

[The Grand Nudger]

Maybe because most people do not accept the definition of atheism as lack of belief, in which case they considered atheists opposed to the fundamental principle for justifying inherent human rights as expressed in the Declaration of Independence. If there is no God, there are no inalienable human rights.

That's a rather dim view of inalienable rights, don't you think?  Just because some ignorant believer mistakenly attributed their inalienable rights to an imaginary god...doesn't mean that they don't have those rights. It's not as if there is no secular foundation for such a position.

Try the UN preamble, for starters.

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

See...freedom, justice, peace in the world. These are secular foundations that are available even to you, the believer. Or..perhaps, for americans, try the actual place and explanation for our rights..not the declaration of independence..but the bill of rights? Specifically, the 9th.

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

See, we own -all- the rights.....they proceed from us, even when they are unmentioned therein. Another secular foundation equally available to you, the believer.