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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Atheists are not victims these days. If anything, it would be worse for someone in my office to come out as a Christian than as an atheist. I'm guessing (at least) two are strong Christians but are hiding it (once in a while you see a remnant of ashes, or another's donations). [/quote]

I have really only worked in politically progressive environments where people are either not overtly devout, simply non-practicing, or, I assume, atheists or agnostic. I have never heard people talking poorly about religion or religious people, even if religion is somehow brought up. I never got the sense that it would be socially acceptable to do that, and I certainly would not have felt comfortable with being demeaning about people's religion, I never heard anyone make fun of religious beliefs, other than maybe an offhand remark about a very non-traditional or uncommon religious group.[b] You might hear someone mention going to church in a very matter of fact way, in the context of talking about what they did on Sunday[/b]. If anything, it is just not a common topic of discussion.

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See bolded above.  I think that when people off-handedly mention going to church, they are purposely or mindlessly giving listeners unneeded information about their religious activities.  I'd prefer they didn't mention it at all.[/quote]

What a stupid take.  It's like me saying 'oh, we stopped at Cava on the way home from the doctor'.  Neither the Dr or Cava should be triggering, neither should church.[/quote]

+1. We have church, we Girl Scouts, we have a trip to see Grandma, it's all stuff that normal people mention.[/quote]

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