And a question about discussing religion

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by lord of the mark the article seems to mention atheists, not agnostics.

The article mentions agnostics once on the first page. I'm not absolutely sure, as the article's author isn't clear about it, but I get the sense that they're lumping athiests and agnostics together. The two are usually lumped together in the polls that I've seen.

[Kuciwalker]

As I said, I'm one of the forum's older farts, and I was raised to believe that asking any question about a person's religious beliefs is rude, unless you know the person well (the same goes for asking about political beliefs); my response was, I'm sure, visceral and based on this deeply-ingrained rule of etiquette. I know I wasn't the only kid of my time and place raised that way, but things change. It sounds like this rule has gone the way of bustle and the buggy whip. True?

I'm 19 and think both of those are rude.