Is any group more discriminated against?
I mean, we have openly gay people in congress and gays cable TV channels - but just try to run for office as an atheist or get an atheist channel on TV. Ain't gonna happen.
2006-12-31 01:39:07 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it's true in very conservative and uneducated societies, like many US states for example, or Saudi Arabia.
2006-12-31 01:42:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
First of all there are openly atheist folks who get elected - Jesse Ventura for example. Maybe voters are reluctant to elect "openly atheist" people because "openly atheist" people tend to be jerks who trash religion (like Ventura did). It's not "discrimination" to not want to vote for a jerk.
Nor is it discrimination for few people to be interested in watching an "atheist TV channel." If there was interest for such a thing, there would be such channels - TV is all about money and little else. Besides the vast majority of TV channels are not religious - they are focused on things like music, sports, entertainment, cooking, news, etc. What exactly are you looking for in an "atheist channel"? If it's a channel that doesn't talk about God or religion then the vast majority of stuff on TV is already in that category.
It's not OK to discriminate against atheists. It's not OK to discriminate against anyone. However you seem to be confusing disagreement or apathy with discrimination. They are not the same thing. Other people having different beliefs than you, other people not liking your personality, and other people not being interested in the same things you're interested in, are not discrimination. To call that "discrimination" trivializes real discrimation (like Jim Crow laws) and quite honestly makes you sound like a drama queen. And that doesn't do much for improving the reputation of atheists.
2006-12-31 02:01:22 · answer #2 · answered by Sass B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the U.S. was based on Christian principals so there goes your government theory.
I don't think anyone should be judged - if you are atheist that is your choice. I would not try to change your mind - as long as you are a decent person.
People are discriminated against all over the world. I went to go get tires yesterday - and because I was not hispanic I waited 30 minutes, they were rude, but they tires were a good price and I can't afford brand new ones. I felt discriminated against, but life is too short - I got my tires and thanked the guy for his time. He didn't make me feel bad...I actually felt bad for him to have to make the energy to make me feel bad.
Life is too short to feel uncomfortable - just be who you are and ignore the rest. :)
2006-12-31 01:45:09 · answer #3 · answered by totalstressor 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
each faith or non-faith gets a collection of crap from the others. Please, do you think of me, a spiritualist Jewish, Buddhist, follower of the training of Christ(besides the undeniable fact that no longer Christianity) would not get instructed they're going to hell? i've got been instructed I killed Jesus....(that's humorous simply by fact i do no longer likely endure in innovations that) No-you'll be discriminated against yet all of us are, all of us make assumptions. So, we could desire to give up contributing to the difficulty and observe that one and all human beings experience the comparable way. From the place i'm status i think attacked in any respect aspects yet i understand that isn't the case, simply by fact anybody I communicate gets the comparable crap. i'm hoping you are able to provide a stable face to atheism.
2016-10-28 19:38:19 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must have missed the very informative episode of South park that dealt with atheist. It leads to the conclusion that hating anyone or wanting to anniliate anyone because there beliefs are different from yours is wrong. Yes there are many other groups that suffer persecution in fact there has not been any mass killings or enslavement of Atheists. Maybe because it takes someone with no moral compass or fear of God to perform such hateful acts. Sorry your cause lacks the evidence to make it a strong one.
2006-12-31 01:58:19 · answer #5 · answered by newyorktilson 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do not discriminate against aeteists everyone has a right to think what they want but I do HATE aetheists who are in my face about their denial of the existance of God
2006-12-31 01:53:48 · answer #6 · answered by devora k 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the UK discrimination against atheists is unheard of-I can't believe it occurs in the US.
2006-12-31 01:41:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any discrimination is not O.K. Maybe most people are just not interested in atheism. God believes in athiests. Happy New Year!
2006-12-31 01:46:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe that's true. I'm certain that there is an electoral district somehwere that would elect an openly atheist candidate.
2006-12-31 02:01:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Enough already! Why follow the rest of them down the 'poor me I'm so discriminated against' path? This victim syndrome makes me want to puke.
2006-12-31 01:43:34 · answer #10 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
it's just an answer the christians don't have a choice but to deal with. So they do what all other people do to the unknown and forsake it
2006-12-31 01:42:07 · answer #11 · answered by ikeboywonder 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋