[TheTurtle]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'I') think there is a missing element in your poll. How many Americans actually know what "atheist" means? Half of them probably think that atheists are alien invaders from the planet Athes or some such.

[SeasonOfPain]

I tell everyone that I'm an atheist, but secretly I'm a follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Speaking of which, the Gospel is due out tomorrow. Can't wait!!

[Rambo]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'I') think there is a missing element in your poll. How many Americans actually know what "atheist" means? Half of them probably think that atheists are alien invaders from the planet Athes or some such.

[Novus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Rambo', '
')
Yes if the United States was nuked the average I.Q of the entire planet would rise 20% overnight.

[rogerhb]

How about Americans who say they are Christian because they did not know there was an option?

[threadbear]

Atheists the most hated? I don't believe it. Agnostics are probably the most hated, but I'm not quite sure.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'A')theists the most hated? I don't believe it. Agnostics are probably the most hated, but I'm not quite sure.

[UIUCstudent01]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', 'H')ow about Americans who say they are Christian because they did not know there was an option?

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

This "study" was conducted in Plano, Texas!!!! I mean come off it... isn't this trolling? I almost choked when I read that... Its like asking hillbillies about French Chardonay! Do they even know how to spell the words to look them up in a dictionary??? Like really eh??? (insert smilie bashing head on brick wall)

[kochevnik]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'T')his "study" was conducted in Plano, Texas!!!! I mean come off it... isn't this trolling? I almost choked when I read that... Its like asking hillbillies about French Chardonay! Do they even know how to spell the words to look them up in a dictionary??? Like really eh??? (insert smilie bashing head on brick wall)

[ejacob3]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', 'e')verybody's got their god. the atheist's god is no-god, and some of them are as fanactical as any bible thumber or koran jockey.

[ejacob3]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeasonOfPain', 'I') tell everyone that I'm an atheist, but secretly I'm a follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Speaking of which, the Gospel is due out tomorrow. Can't wait!!

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')rom a telephone sampling of more than 2,000 households in Plano, Texas, university researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in “sharing their vision of American society.” Atheists are also the minority group most Americans are least willing to allow their children to marry.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

While the study was conducted by the Univ or Minn. it was apparently a sampling of people all over the US. (I found a few much better sources for this article)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')Attitudes toward atheists are related to social location," observed the team. "White Americans, males, and those with a college degree are somewhat more accepting of atheists than are nonwhite Americans, females, or those with less formal education."

Respondents from the South and Midwest were less accepting of Atheists than those living on either coast. Curiously, this seems to reflect the political divide of "Red versus Blue" states from the last presidential election.

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'Y')ou say Minnesota but this says Plano, Texas... so which is it? Not that it really makes much difference. Where'd they get their telephone directory? and evangelical church or are all Americans this... way.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')y earlier reference to the survey being conducted in Plano, Texas was a joke.

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')y earlier reference to the survey being conducted in Plano, Texas was a joke.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'w')ith respondents using the Atheist "as a symbolic figure to represent their fears

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')espondents from the South and Midwest were less accepting of Atheists than those living on either coast.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')espondents from the South and Midwest were less accepting of Atheists than those living on either coast.