Is Atheism Only for the Upper Class? Socioeconomic Differences Among the Religiously Unaffiliated

[Phillip McCleod]

31. i do not want to make you my enemy.

in fact i feel like we're finally having a real conversation. i imagine this is why the religion group was originally invented, whatever it has become.. perhaps we just don't know each other. it happens.

i'm no bigot, and neither are some of the other people who have been called 'bigots' for 'broadbrushing' islam. we get your point, ok? we get it. we have muslim friends too, that we care about very much. we all do don't we, in this pluralistic socity?

but islam gets no pass from atheists. ok, it's like this.. whatever religion it is? we don't *believe*. there is knowledge, and on the subject of faith, the one broadbrush we can paint with about atheists is that we're all agnostic. we don't know. some of us don't care. i happen to be interested. i've read the koran, and every other holy book i could get my hands on. atheists vary but there is one thing that unites us. we don't *believe*. it's beliefs that we have a beef with, not believers..

.. at least, not until they kill or oppress or discriminate in the name of their skydaddy.