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According to this unscientific poll, the vast majority of HN readers that answered the poll are non-religious/atheist/agnostic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item
by cmelbye 14y ago
According to this unscientific poll, the vast majority of HN readers that answered the poll are non-religious/atheist/agnostic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1486594 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1486594
- tptacek 14y agoAbsolutely unsurprising, but obviously "atheist" doesn't equate automatically to "antireligious".
- corin_ 14y agoAnd to add to that, it's possible to be "antireligious" without being rude to people who are religious, without feeling the need to bring it up every time you find out someone is religious and without it meaning you can't be friends with someone who is religious.
- epo 14y agoDepends who you ask, it is always the insecure "religious" people who tend to perceive other people's lack of superstition as threatening, hence antireligious.
- tptacek 14y agoYeah I've seen that phenomenon, oh, about never on HN.
- run4yourlives 14y agoExactly. The other important point is that those terms are only "the same thing" to atheists. Non-religious and agnostics don't identify with atheists at all really.
- m0nastic 14y agoI actually think 1/3 of respondents being religious is "more 'religious' people on HN than you'd think" considering the demographic of people here. I think if you asked people familiar with HN to guess what percentage of folks here were religious, you'd get a much lower response (personally, I'd have guessed maybe 10%, which is obviously incorrect).