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Dityn DJ James said:
Atheists aren't treated as bad as people say, there's just a lot of racism/homophobia which I'm extremely not ok with.
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Excuse me but that's complete BS. You don't have to declare yourself to be a member of a race, so it's an easy target. You don't necessarily have to declare yourself as a LGBT person to be an easy target. But atheist people in many cultures and countries are oppressed in a way that they're afraid to declare their atheism and opposing of the idea of a creating force and religion. If you don't talk about your thoughts on the origin of life and universe debate and religious debates, no one will know that you're an atheist. Whereas you don't have to necessarily talk about race and LGBT to be recognized as a member of a certain race or LGBT.

Religious discrimination is just as big of a problem as racial discrimination and sexual discrimination.
 
I think that gay people have, sometimes, an easier time hiding away than people of a certain race, of course.

I've definitely been treated poorly for being an atheist.
 
I've heard stories about how people from religious families have been shunned to an extent for declaring themselves atheist, but atheist-theist marriages can work out perfectly. I personally haven't been treated poorly for being an atheist.
 
I don't declare myself as atheist to public, except for close friends. As such I haven't been treated poorly, but I do hear atrocious remarks that discriminate atheists everywhere.
 
Oh, and it's 542 pages long if anyone does choose to download it :p It looks like the focus is on legally recognised rights, loopholes which sidestep human rights obligations, and state discrimination, rather than more general social discrimination. I don't see a whole lot of direct social discrimination against atheists in the UK, but there's probably still fair old bit of Anglican Christianity mixed up in British law.
 
Such as the monarch must be Anglican, and any Catholics in royal family lose their place in line to the throne. So if a cousin marries a Catholic the cousin's spouse must convert to Anglicanism in order to preserve the cousin's place in line. This actually happened fairly recently, but it was an insignificant member of the royal family.

There was also a law once that a Catholic couldn't be Prime Minister but I think that may have been repealed. Although Tony Blair waited until after his resignation before converting to Catholicism.
 
Yeah, but the map was about discrimination against atheists in particular. I don't doubt there's discrimination against individual religions or religious denominations.
 
LooseCannon said:
I've definitely been treated poorly for being an atheist.
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I've had some odd experiences. I used to catch a bus downtown, the stop being in front of a Jewish school. One day a teacher came out to chat, and started asking my religion. "Atheist" brought on quite a lecture. I didn't think of it as "poor treatment"; really, I was more amused at how much the guy freaked out.

Usually, the reaction is extreme. Either "right on dude" or "hell no". No one seems neutral about it.
 
Black Wizard said:
I know what the map showed, but I was responding to your thoughts about Anglican Christianity and British Law. :p
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Fair 'nuff. :p But it adds up to the same, despite legal inequalities, I've never heard widespread open discrimination or persecution of atheists in the UK, not on the level that Flash talks about.

Some older generation traditionalists in particular might frown on younger generations dropping out of religion, but if anything I've heard much stronger open criticism by atheists and agnostics of people who subscribe to an organised religion.

Sorry @Forostar I didn't see your post back there.
 
Brigantium said:
...I've never heard widespread open discrimination or persecution of atheists in the UK, not on the level that Flash talks about.

Some older generation traditionalists in particular might frown on younger generations dropping out of religion, but if anything I've heard much stronger open criticism by atheists and agnostics of people who subscribe to an organised religion.
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Yip, that's the UK that I see too.
 
I'm not sure sniping on social media warrants a full report tbh. Keyboard warriors will always find somebody to pick on for something.
 
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