Largest ever study of Atheists in America.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

This active distrust and dislike of atheists that's being discussed is sort of culturally alien to me. I obviously don't live in nearly as much of a resolutely secular bubble as Dule does, but New England is still one of the less-religious parts of the country at this point and I associate nosy overconcern with other people's irreligiosity mostly with the elderly and with transplants from the Midwest or South.

I grew up just outside Worcester, Mass. It's quite secular. But at school I did come across small number of religious students, mostly catholics.

I'm Catholic myself. I'm not very familiar with Worcester in particular, but the Pioneer Valley, where I live, is very much a "mostly secular, but there are definitely still religious people around" kind of place. Lots of Buddhists these days--and not just white converts, there are Southeast Asian immigrant and refugee populations too.

[Rover]

This active distrust and dislike of atheists that's being discussed is sort of culturally alien to me. I obviously don't live in nearly as much of a resolutely secular bubble as Dule does, but New England is still one of the less-religious parts of the country at this point and I associate nosy overconcern with other people's irreligiosity mostly with the elderly and with transplants from the Midwest or South.

I grew up just outside Worcester, Mass. It's quite secular. But at school I did come across small number of religious students, mostly catholics.

I'm Catholic myself. I'm not very familiar with Worcester in particular, but the Pioneer Valley, where I live, is very much a "mostly secular, but there are definitely still religious people around" kind of place. Lots of Buddhists these days--and not just white converts, there are Southeast Asian immigrant and refugee populations too.

I live in Shrewsbury now, my parents live in Westborough. Lots of south Asians (Indians) here. I have few friends who are Buddhists of Cambodian heritage, they came to the US as refugees. 

[Kingpoleon]

This active distrust and dislike of atheists that's being discussed is sort of culturally alien to me. I obviously don't live in nearly as much of a resolutely secular bubble as Dule does, but New England is still one of the less-religious parts of the country at this point and I associate nosy overconcern with other people's irreligiosity mostly with the elderly and with transplants from the Midwest or South.

I come from the Bible Belt, and I’ve never heard anyone ask someone else their religion. It’s just not something you talk a lot about, and if you do, it’s like sports: if you’re not interested in it, then you still might have to listen to people talk about it a lot.

I mean, if I were an atheist, I wouldn’t go around telling people it here. But I’ve also kept a lot of my religious opinions on believer’s baptism and evolution in the closet, just because I know they would offend a good number of people, if not the majority. It’s not “oppression,” it’s just something you don’t say because it would offend people. That’s not evil suppression - here, at least, it’s just good manners.