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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And that's a big part of the appeal?

On the other thread someone posted that Jesus would be an atheist because he was a "nonconformist"  :shock:  and as a not-particularly religious person I found this fairly interesting.

In my experiences with atheists, ideas that they are somehow "bucking conformity" seem to be a huge part of the appeal.

And yet, if you look at a lot of the discourse nowadays, it's heavily secular and anyone who gives religious advice is generally seen as a lunatic.

Like I said, I'm not religious, and I receive 0 pressure to go to church, 0 people who come up and try to make me be Christian.

But talking to some of the atheists on here you would think that everyone in the world is upset that they are an atheist and they constantly have to struggle and fight off pressure to convert.

So... is this a core part of the "atheist identity"? [/quote]

I've never experienced that with atheists who I know.    Although I've read that atheists as a whole tend to be more focused on social justice, and doing good for others, that has not been my experience.  Most atheists I know do no charity work and don't generally contribute to charity.  People (who I know) who self-identify as pantheists, agnostic, or humanists, however, do.

That's just my experience, though.   Nothing about conforming or not conforming.  If anything, they just seem to conform with the generic liberal stereotype. [/quote]

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