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There is a lot of confirmation bias in judging how non-religious folks are treated in America by using /r/atheism - the people that don't feel persecuted won't
by brown9-2 14y ago
There is a lot of confirmation bias in judging how non-religious folks are treated in America by using /r/atheism - the people that don't feel persecuted won't ever feel a need to join an online community to discuss it.
- citricsquid 14y agooh of course and I do not use r/atheism regularly, I find the entire place really disappointing because it's not about atheism, it's about how much religious people are morons (which I disagree with). My curiosity was because there are thousands of redditors that believe they're persecuted for their Atheism and I've never once seen someone from England claim that, it's only ever Americans, which leads me to believe there may be some base to the claim (if what Ryan said in the blog post is accurate).
- adrianhoward 14y agoI'm from the UK. Something I remember from a road trip I took in the 90's across the US was, on multiple occasions, being told that I was "brave" or "courageous" when it came up in conversation that I was an atheist (technical agnostic, working atheist if you want to be picky :-) This was from religious and non-religious folk. Nobody was mean about it to my face - but it felt like people expected bad things to happen because of it.