I find it odd that when filling out a form that asked me what my religion is one of the choices is Atheist.

What now? That is the that opposite of religion.

  • mindlesscrollyparrotEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Exactly. Lack of belief in gods is not the same as actively denying that there are gods.

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The issue is that in conversation its hard for theists to tell the difference between the two. To them it dosen’t matter if I say “I think your wrong” or “I simply dont care”, a lot of them will see someone who needs to be “saved”. A non-zero number of them will be very annoying about that or be obstructive because of it, so its best to handle all religion based conversations with kid-gloves.