How do religious people learn about atheism?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here is an adaptation of a question I asked in the “What do Atheists Believe?” thread. http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/729573.page It seems better suited for its own discussion:


So I'm asking – do your questions about atheists and atheism come from personal speculation? from church? from your family? From books, TV, the movies? something else?

Read your question: you are asking if the questions about atheism coming from church? from family?

Questions are coming from person's mind. If questions coming from books, then the author of the book is the author of the questions. I am not completely sure what exactly are you asking.

I don't ask people about their atheism believes. I grew up in Soviet Union, there were no church and no religion, and frankly, no God. I grew up among atheists. My family were and most of them remain atheists.

Thanks for clarifying that you are from a county where there was no discussion of religion. That explains a lot. The question was aimed at Americans

Reading comprehension? Where is in OP it says that it is only for Americans?

And I am American, by the way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is an adaptation of a question I asked in the “What do Atheists Believe?” thread. http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/729573.page It seems better suited for its own discussion:


So I'm asking – do your questions about atheists and atheism come from personal speculation? from church? from your family? From books, TV, the movies? something else?

Read your question: you are asking if the questions about atheism coming from church? from family?

Questions are coming from person's mind. If questions coming from books, then the author of the book is the author of the questions. I am not completely sure what exactly are you asking.

I don't ask people about their atheism believes. I grew up in Soviet Union, there were no church and no religion, and frankly, no God. I grew up among atheists. My family were and most of them remain atheists.

Thanks for clarifying that you are from a county where there was no discussion of religion. That explains a lot. The question was aimed at Americans

Reading comprehension? Where is in OP it says that it is only for Americans?

And I am American, by the way.

Nowhere in the OP does it say it's aimed at Americans. It was implicit. And it helps to know that that the pp is from a different culture in which atheism, not Christianity, is in the majority.

Sincerely, OP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My initial encounters with atheists were all with people who were angry with organized religion or the God they claimed not to believe in. As an adult, I met some people who were cultural atheists since birth and they weren’t angry, just smarmy and self-righteous. I keep waiting to meet in person the happy and tolerant-to-believers atheists that I read about online. I live in one of most diverse zip codes in a very well-educated county and am a hard core science fiction fan married to a STEM-doctorate so the problem isn’t that I live in a religious bubble. I’ve never preached at anyone whether they were a believer of a different faith or a non-believer so I’m not driving them away with my viewpoints. In fact, many of the atheists I met expressed shock that I’m religious.

To meet those happy and tolerant types, try going to countries like the Nordics (Sweden, Denmark, Norway) and Australia/New Zealand. These are countries which are simultaneously increasingly secular and also score highly on anti-corruption and happiness indices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My initial encounters with atheists were all with people who were angry with organized religion or the God they claimed not to believe in. As an adult, I met some people who were cultural atheists since birth and they weren’t angry, just smarmy and self-righteous. I keep waiting to meet in person the happy and tolerant-to-believers atheists that I read about online. I live in one of most diverse zip codes in a very well-educated county and am a hard core science fiction fan married to a STEM-doctorate so the problem isn’t that I live in a religious bubble. I’ve never preached at anyone whether they were a believer of a different faith or a non-believer so I’m not driving them away with my viewpoints. In fact, many of the atheists I met expressed shock that I’m religious.

Those people may be so happy and tolerant that they don't bring up their atheism. Maybe you should be pro-active and ask.