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Rob Reiner was an Atheist. (Original Post) Sector 001 Friday OP
So am I. SamKnause Friday #1
Same. I held on to belief until I was in my early 20's. QueerDuck Friday #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Goonch Friday #8
Me too. Traildogbob Friday #3
And..... so? Srkdqltr Friday #4
It may not matter much overall but it may matter to some. chowder66 Friday #23
Me too. NNadir Friday #5
So was his father, Carl Reiner. no_hypocrisy Friday #6
Loved Carl Reiner. He was a gem. His son was an equally wonderful chip off the old block. paleotn Friday #20
Yes. mzmolly Friday #28
Agnostic here.... anciano Friday #7
I'm not smart enough to know whether God exists or not. OAITW r.2.0 Friday #10
Atheist, but I get your meaning. paleotn Friday #22
;-{) I'm in WITSEC Goonch Friday #9
but he was also a Jew mountain grammy Friday #11
I happened to be watching CBS the evening the first episode of All in the Family aired. John1956PA Friday #12
Lifelong Atheist here Escape Friday #13
I think most people are really agnostics Wifes husband Friday #18
I don't really know the difference between Agnostic and Atheist.. Escape Friday #25
Here is what made me an Athiest instead of a Agnostic. Athiest- "we dont have to disprove their claim, they have Eko Friday #27
Christian here. hamsterjill Friday #14
Why should I care??? TNNurse Friday #15
I am not really understanding why this is considered important?????? Bev54 Friday #16
me too. barbtries Friday #17
I'm like,,,,,,, LilElf70 Friday #19
Just means he was a rational thinker rhiannon55 Friday #21
I'm an agnostic married to an atheist lindalou65 Friday #24
Someone please make a point tirebiter Friday #26
Godless Liberals Martin Eden Friday #29
More and more people are becoming Atheists BigmanPigman 11 hrs ago #30

Response to SamKnause (Reply #1)

Traildogbob

(12,436 posts)
3. Me too.
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 04:44 PM
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And fucking proud of it. Religion made me so. At least American religion did, especially GQP version.
Jesus turned me woke. Like him. Unacceptable to White Jesus, according to Megan Kelly the quintessential Christian of American faith.
I follow the darker version of Jesus.

chowder66

(11,748 posts)
23. It may not matter much overall but it may matter to some.
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:41 PM
Friday

I came out as an atheist long before really anyone I knew did. Some would say they were agnostic and that I was too.... which was interesting to be told what I was by others. So many people pushed back. It was tiresome.

It's nice to know that he (and his father) was also one.

paleotn

(21,371 posts)
20. Loved Carl Reiner. He was a gem. His son was an equally wonderful chip off the old block.
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:34 PM
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anciano

(2,137 posts)
7. Agnostic here....
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 04:55 PM
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I believe we are one with Nature, that we are just as much a part of the natural world as waves are to the ocean.

OAITW r.2.0

(31,305 posts)
10. I'm not smart enough to know whether God exists or not.
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 05:52 PM
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Last edited Fri Dec 19, 2025, 09:18 PM - Edit history (2)

So agnostic.* However, over the past 40 years or so, I've come to realize that; if a God exists, he surely doesn't give a fuck about us.

* On edit: I want to thank 8 years of Jesuit education in helping me reach this viewpoint.

paleotn

(21,371 posts)
22. Atheist, but I get your meaning.
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:40 PM
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. We all eventually cycle back into the food web. For me, that's vastly more comforting than some celestial penthouse. And why would we deserve that? We're but a nanosecond in deep time if even that.

mountain grammy

(28,605 posts)
11. but he was also a Jew
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 06:04 PM
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"What kind of Jew are you? The atheist kind"... from the Kominsky Method, and the late, great Alan Arkin

I'm sure Rob laughed at that, like all of us atheist Jews.. Being Jewish is far more than faith or belief. we're a tribe.

John1956PA

(4,719 posts)
12. I happened to be watching CBS the evening the first episode of All in the Family aired.
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 06:50 PM
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His character, Mike Stivic, and Gloria indicated in conversation with Archie and Edith that they did not believe in the existence of God.

Escape

(365 posts)
13. Lifelong Atheist here
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 06:50 PM
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Most of the decent, honest and rational people I've met in my 7 decades are Atheists.

Almost all of the worst people I've met were deeply religious.

It's been an easy call.

Escape

(365 posts)
25. I don't really know the difference between Agnostic and Atheist..
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:59 PM
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I don't believe there is a Santa Claus, an Easter Bunny, ghosts, gods, angels or leprechauns.

We humans made all those groovy things up.them up to amuse ourselves..

Eko

(9,808 posts)
27. Here is what made me an Athiest instead of a Agnostic. Athiest- "we dont have to disprove their claim, they have
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 09:14 PM
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to first offer any kind of evidence to even think it true, they have not done that at all so then there is no evidence that it can be true. I'm not going to address a claim that has no evidence and try to disprove this claim that has no evidence. What could I disprove? That they have no evidence?

hamsterjill

(16,903 posts)
14. Christian here.
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:06 PM
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But every person gets to decide their own path. And no one is more than another.

LilElf70

(1,339 posts)
19. I'm like,,,,,,,
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:16 PM
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Yeah, so what.

And I'm not agnostic, nor an athiest.

He and his wife were great people.

lindalou65

(372 posts)
24. I'm an agnostic married to an atheist
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:47 PM
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and have been since we were late teens. Haven't changed our minds yet. We're in our later 70's now.

Martin Eden

(15,301 posts)
29. Godless Liberals
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 10:17 PM
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Have a much truer moral compass than any tRump humping self proclaimed Christian.

BigmanPigman

(54,529 posts)
30. More and more people are becoming Atheists
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 05:16 PM
11 hrs ago

I have been one since 10 and my whole family are Atheists as well as most of my friends over the years.

I realized that people raised in the Catholic Church were more likely to become atheists.

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