everytime i see an atheists it seems like they are white people. usually people of different of different cultures follow a cultural or traditional religion passed down from ancestors or indigenous poeple.
2007-10-25 08:59:59 · 51 answers · asked by lalagirly 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Again, there are religions that do not believe in God but have traditinal practices. Millions of Chinese does not count! They have their cultural religion. Even some black people practice traditional religions, so they don't count either
2007-10-25 09:09:07 · update #1
Yep. We're all white. Get it? All white? All right? Eh? No?
Damn.
It's not an inaccurate stereotype as far as I've seen (I've never met a black atheist; must not exist, right? ha), though you'd probably get your a** chewed by anybody that you said that to in person. I'm sure not EVERY person that isn't white is prone to "catching the religion." People are people and color has nothing to do with that.
2007-10-25 09:09:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is stereotypical to state in this manner without facts to back it up. I do not believe for a minute that only white individuals are atheists, as it has been stated in the posts that there are atheist in other cultures. When you live in a country like America, a person can believe or disbelieve whatever they want.
2007-10-25 09:10:15 · answer #2 · answered by julvrug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm Native American, and atheist.
When I was 15, because I didn't believe the least bit in God, I assumed I could follow Native American spiritual traditions. I couldn't, but I told people I did, simply because I couldn't identify myself as an atheist.
I find I got as little respect claiming to follow my ancestral heritage as I do declaring to be an atheist.
I was once surrounded by members of a youth group all insisting I would burn in hell for eternity if I didn't forsake my claim, and declare Jesus H. Christ as my personal lord and savior.
I plainly stated, 'but this is my heritage - should I simply forsake my parents and their parents and their parents?'
Their answer? "Yes. You have to"
As far as Christians are concerned, inherited spiritualities are received on and respected at about the same level as atheism, best I can tell. Which is to say...not at all. Therefore, I don't view someone following their ethnic tradition as being particularly religious, at least not automatically.
2007-10-25 09:12:23 · answer #3 · answered by David V 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm... a statistical analysis. One: out of all of the people you've known and met, what percentage of them do you actually know are or are not religious? Two: What percentage of the people you know are white? Is this a close aproximation of the actual percentage of white people in the general population? Three: What is your own ethnic identity (this can be considered a bias). Four: do you actually know enough people for your personal experience to be useful as an effective statistical sample?
I personally haven't heard this particular stereotype.
2007-10-25 09:07:00 · answer #4 · answered by average person Violated 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's a stereotype. I know of white atheists and black atheists. Buddhism is atheistic, and it's practiced primarily by Asian cultures.
I am white, I'm Portuguese, German, Scots-Irish, French, and Native Hawaiian. The Native Hawaiian blood I have is very little, but my family is from Kailua so we have the awesome Hawaiian culture embedded into our lives.
2007-10-25 09:13:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apparently; I thought atheists were White, until I saw an episode of Wife Swap about two years ago, where the one family was atheist and had a radio show, and they were Black, and the other family was White and were very religious. Big surprise!
2007-10-25 09:07:05 · answer #6 · answered by kellygirlaj 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion is associated with the downtrodden. As nations get more prosperous religious fundamentalism tends to decrease (Americans mostly believe the bible is metaphor and not literal). If you take the "black church" as an example, you will notice that the rate of fundamentalist Christianity is decreasing in proportion as the level of prosperity of black people is rising as a whole.
2007-10-25 09:07:08 · answer #7 · answered by Earl Grey 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I guess that is a generalization that might be fairly accurate.
I believe that it really has more to do with access to education than anything else.
White people tend to live in countries that are more advanced economically, and therefore are lucky enough to have access to education.
Education tends to make Atheists, because education forces humans to think through problems and find factual answers to tough questions.
2007-10-25 09:04:03 · answer #8 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, all Buddhists should be atheists if keeping Buddha's doctrine. But you are right: only Whites killed God. If some coloured people became atheists, it was always through a contamination from Whites. Yet they are paying it the same price as Whites do, for God does not pardon everything.
2007-10-25 09:14:03 · answer #9 · answered by Mirka 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
after you live in one of the largest cities in the USA you will change your opinion. many atheists seem to be very successful people usally people involved in physics, science and human relations. Because answers do not come easily in their line of work; sometimes never--people tend to take a line of least resistance to put a problem to rest: "an atheist attitude contributes to this category".
2007-10-25 09:09:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋