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I've long been struck by how atheists are second-class citizens in this country, and paradoxically at a time when its popular culture is highly secularized (not to mention wallowing in the sewer in a lot of ways, frankly). <\/p>\n

I\u00a0 don't have time to comment now\u2013I am packing miserably at the last minute for a move\u2013but this article on the injustices faced by atheists in American society deserves to be reflected on carefully and considered widely.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Tikkun Daily Blog \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Atheists are Beautiful: A Religious Person Defends Atheism<\/a><\/p>\n

Being an atheist in America means being less than human. I know from personal experience, not from being an atheist but from being raised Christian in a conservative Christian town and holding negative biases about atheists. Like many others I thought that a belief in God was the foundation of morality, that Christians were superior to others and that atheists were a threat to believers. I didn\u2019t, however, reach this conclusion consciously after weighing the facts and examining the issue independently. But rather it was something so ingrained within the culture that it permeated the social conscience. And of course atheists were just one group among many targeted by some Christians. But for several years now there have been movements both religious and secular that have championed the rights of other marginalized groups such as gays, people of color and women. Now it\u2019s time for religious and spiritual people to take a stand for non-believers of all varieties. [MORE]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

P.S. My title refers to the fact that America already has a form of\u00a0 the \"dhimmitude\" Islamophobes scream bloody murder about, but it's being enforced by Christians against atheists.<\/p>\n

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