November 15, 1999 at 12:00 am #26660
Andrew
Participant
Atheists aren’t ‘forgetting’ whatever beneficial aspects there are too religion; they just don’t see them or understand them or believe in them. Second, in my experience, relatively few atheists grew up in restrictive homes. My family was nominally Jewish, but it was the most casual kind of Judaism you could imagine. I don’t believe in God (and, perhaps interestingly, my brother, with whom I’m quite close, is an ultra-Orthodox Jew). And third, I have no idea where the thought that atheists are well-to-do, white elitists comes from. I’m surely white, but I’m well-to-do only in my dreams. Atheists — like those of all religions — are in every social class.