Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority

[Drake Tungsten]

One would think that this could be applied to any belief subgroup...

Somewhat, but many times its easier to recognize the quieter members of other belief subgroups, allowing your perception of the group to be shaped by not just the most vocal and crazy members of the subgroup. It's hard to recognize your nice, average atheist as they don't have any religious symbols, customs or holidays to tip you off.

[flash9286]

Country Total Pop.(2004) % Atheist/actual # Agnostic/Nonbeliever in God (minimum - maximum)
1 Sweden 8,986,000 46-85% 4,133,560-7,638,100
2 Vietnam 82,690,000 81% 66,978,900
3 Denmark 5,413,000 43-80% 2,327,590-4,330,400
4 Norway 4,575,000 31-72% 1,418,250-3,294,000
5 Japan 127,333,000 64-65% 81,493,120-82,766,450
6 Czech Republic 10,246,100 54-61% 5,328,940-6,250,121
7 Finland 5,215,000 28-60% 1,460,200-3,129,000
8 France 60,424,000 43-54% 25,982,320-32,628,960
9 South Korea 48,598,000 30%-52% 14,579,400-25,270,960
10 Estonia 1,342,000 49% 657,580
11 Germany 82,425,000 41-49% 33,794,250-40,388,250
12 Russia 143,782,000 24-48% 34,507,680-69,015,360
13 Hungary 10,032,000 32-46% 3,210,240-4,614,720
14 Netherlands 16,318,000 39-44% 6,364,020-7,179,920
15 Britain 60,271,000 31-44% 18,684,010-26,519,240
16 Belgium 10,348,000 42-43% 4,346,160-4,449,640
17 Bulgaria 7,518,000 34-40% 2,556,120-3,007,200
18 Slovenia 2,011,000 35-38% 703,850-764,180
19 Israel 6,199,000 15-37% 929,850-2,293,630
20 Canada 32,508,000 19-30% 6,176,520-9,752,400
21 Latvia 2,306,000 20-29% 461,200-668,740
22 Slovakia 5,424,000 10-28% 542,400-1,518,720
23 Switzerland 7,451,000 17-27% 1,266,670-2,011,770
24 Austria 8,175,000 18-26% 1,471,500-2,125,500
25 Australia 19,913,000 24-25% 4,779,120-4,978,250
26 Taiwan 22,750,000 24% 5,460,000
27 Spain 40,281,000 15-24% 6,042,150-9,667,440
28 Iceland 294,000 16-23% 47,040-67,620
29 New Zealand 3,994,000 20-22% 798,800-878,680
30 Ukraine 47,732,000 20% 9,546,400
31 Belarus 10,311,000 17% 1,752,870
32 Greece 10,648,000 16% 1,703,680
33 North Korea 22,698,000 15% ( ? ) 3,404,700
34 Italy 58,057,000 6-15% 3,483,420-8,708,550
35 Armenia 2,991,000 14% 418,740
36 China 1,298,848,000 8-14% ( ? ) 103,907,840-181,838,720
37 Lithuania 3,608,000 13% 469,040
38 Singapore 4,354,000 13% 566,020
39 Uruguay 3,399,000 12% 407,880
40 Kazakhstan 15,144,000 11-12% 1,665,840-1,817,280
41 Estonia 1,342,000 11% 147,620
42 Mongolia 2,751,000 9% 247,590
43 Portugal 10,524,000 4-9% 420,960-947,160
44 United States 293,028,000 3-9% 8,790,840-26,822,520
45 Albania 3,545,000 8% 283,600
46 Argentina 39,145,000 4-8% 1,565,800-3,131,600
47 Kyrgyzstan 5,081,000 7% 355,670
48 Dominican Rep. 8,834,000 7% 618,380
49 Cuba 11,309,000 7% ( ? ) 791,630
50 Croatia 4,497,000 7% 314,790

so its about 3-9%

http://www.pitzer.edu/academics/faculty/zuckerman/atheism.html

[Gibsie]

Cuba has one of the lowest rates of atheism? But I've been told repeatedly that atheism = communism

[Berzerker]

Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority, according to new U of M study

Worse than Congress ? No way!

I'd like to see a study correlating criminal behaviour with religious belief...

Or better yet, identifying the % of atheists among the criminal population

I'm agnostic and I distrust atheists, mainly because I associate them with dip****s like Michael Newdow.

Why do conservatives hate American heroes?

Where were these 2,000 households? Bumblefuq, Kansas?

Bloody Kansas

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
I'm agnostic and I distrust atheists, mainly because I associate them with dip****s like Michael Newdow.

So an agnostic is having a problem with Newdow's effort of removing the term "under god" from the US Pledge of Allegiance?

::shrug::

[Berzerker]

Castro wouldn't have lasted if he cracked down on catholicism

[GePap]

The pledge of alliegence sounded better in its original, Godless version. The revised 1954 version sound wrong.

[alva]

my view on religious people...

Originally posted by Elok
Huh. Speaking for myself, I don't distrust them;I just think a lot of them tend to be obnoxious, belligerent douches sometimes.

Oh wait, I thought you were talking about religious people...my bad.

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
So an agnostic is having a problem with Newdow's effort of removing the term "under god" from the US Pledge of Allegiance?
::shrug::

I'm basically an athiest, and I don't care about having under god in the Pledge. It's meaningless to me, and it's harmless. Michael Newdow is an attention whore douche bag who makes all athiests look bad.

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm basically an athiest, and I don't care about having under god in the Pledge. It's meaningless to me, and it's harmless. Michael Newdow is an attention whore douche bag who makes all athiests look bad.

[alva]

and I don't care about having under god in the Pledge. It's meaningless to me, and it's harmless.

Actually, I really wouldn't want my kid to do that.
Neither to god or to some flag.
The whole thing rather scares me.

[BeBMan]

Atheists are also the minority group most Americans are least willing to allow their children to marry

[Barnabas]

I actually prefer atheits to muslims and protestants.

Most people dont have a problem with atheists, if the atheists are just people who dont give a sheit for religion, only militant atheists annoy people.

I had a communist maths teacher when I was a kid, she would ask me, do you believe in god? why?
Anyway, the ***** lost her right hand, and had to learn to write agains with her left hand, take that atheist!

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Wycoff
I'm basically an athiest, and I don't care about having under god in the Pledge. It's meaningless to me, and it's harmless. Michael Newdow is an attention whore douche bag who makes all athiests look bad.

You know, the whole separation of Church and State issue.

[DaShi]

She lost her right hand because she was an atheist?