Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forumRob Reiner was an Atheist.

His father Carl Reiner was also an atheist.
https://www.beliefnet.com/celebrity-faith-database/r/rob-reiner.aspx
https://ffrf.org/publications/day/rob-reiner/
SamKnause
(14,646 posts)QueerDuck
(865 posts)Response to SamKnause (Reply #1)
Goonch This message was self-deleted by its author.
Traildogbob
(12,436 posts)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.
Srkdqltr
(9,301 posts)chowder66
(11,748 posts)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.
NNadir
(37,182 posts)no_hypocrisy
(54,112 posts)And they both were Humanists.
paleotn
(21,371 posts)Important to note, thank you.
anciano
(2,137 posts)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)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)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.
Goonch
(4,193 posts)mountain grammy
(28,605 posts)"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)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)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.
Wifes husband
(684 posts)Escape
(365 posts)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)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)But every person gets to decide their own path. And no one is more than another.
TNNurse
(7,478 posts)He was an amazing human being.
Bev54
(13,144 posts)barbtries
(31,085 posts)great minds and all that.
LilElf70
(1,339 posts)Yeah, so what.
And I'm not agnostic, nor an athiest.
He and his wife were great people.
rhiannon55
(2,766 posts)No place in his mind for idiotic fairy tales. I relate.
lindalou65
(372 posts)and have been since we were late teens. Haven't changed our minds yet. We're in our later 70's now.
tirebiter
(2,660 posts)Martin Eden
(15,301 posts)Have a much truer moral compass than any tRump humping self proclaimed Christian.
BigmanPigman
(54,529 posts)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.