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Can you consider Atheism an ethnicity
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RE: Can you consider Atheism an ethnicity
September 27, 2021 at 4:45 pm
(September 27, 2021 at 4:08 pm)UniverseCaptain Wrote:
(September 27, 2021 at 3:47 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Before I’m willing to accept atheism as an ethnicity, I’ll need evidence for widespread commonalities in:

-Atheist music

-Atheist dress

-Atheist cuisine

-Atheist celebrations 

-Atheist naming culture

-Atheist literature

-Atheist agricultural practices

Etc, etc.

Until and unless that happens…nah.

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Atheism is about free choice though as an individual rather than being boxed in . It would be a post post modern ethnicity and be a ground breaking ethnicity   that was the point of putting that part in the op

But it doesn’t fit any definition of an ethnicity.

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RE: Can you consider Atheism an ethnicity
September 27, 2021 at 4:45 pm (This post was last modified: September 27, 2021 at 4:48 pm by UniverseCaptain.)
(September 27, 2021 at 4:28 pm)Helios Wrote: Here's a question. Why would we want to be an ethnicity?

I wish ethncities didn’t exist at all, but socially I don’t think that’s possible . So it’s
an idea .
(September 27, 2021 at 4:43 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:
(September 27, 2021 at 4:08 pm)UniverseCaptain Wrote: Atheism is about free choice though as an individual rather than being boxed in . It would be a post post modern ethnicity and be a ground breaking ethnicity   that was the point of putting that part in the op

Ethnicity may be an arbitrary human construct, but we understand what it means.

The set of "people that hang around in an atheist chatroom" is not an ethnicity, despite being another arbitrary construct.

Things can evolve though socially to include new and/or altered fixed definitions . Race seems to have done that , even gender.
Don’t see why ethnicity should be different. I think even as things are it’s possible to jam it in as an ethnicity
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RE: Can you consider Atheism an ethnicity
September 27, 2021 at 5:00 pm
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RE: Can you consider Atheism an ethnicity
September 27, 2021 at 5:28 pm
Quote:I wish ethnicities didn’t exist at all, but socially I don’t think that’s possible. So it’s

an idea .
That doesn't really answer why we would want to be one. Especially considering no one else regards us as one.
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RE: Can you consider Atheism an ethnicity
September 27, 2021 at 5:41 pm
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RE: Can you consider Atheism an ethnicity
September 27, 2021 at 5:41 pm
(September 27, 2021 at 5:28 pm)Helios Wrote:
Quote:I wish ethnicities didn’t exist at all, but socially I don’t think that’s possible. So it’s

an idea .
That doesn't really answer why we would want to be one. Especially considering no one else regards us as one.

Someone is hinting at John Lennon. Would you rather have Steve Bannon?
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RE: Can you consider Atheism an ethnicity
September 27, 2021 at 5:42 pm
(September 27, 2021 at 5:41 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(September 27, 2021 at 5:28 pm)Helios Wrote: That doesn't really answer why we would want to be one. Especially considering no one else regards us as one.

Someone is hinting at John Lennon. Would you rather have Steve Bannon?

See above.

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RE: Can you consider Atheism an ethnicity
September 27, 2021 at 6:09 pm
Quote:Someone is hinting at John Lennon. Would you rather have Steve Bannon
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RE: Can you consider Atheism an ethnicity
September 27, 2021 at 6:28 pm
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