{"id":18875,"date":"2014-07-16T12:28:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T19:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18875"},"modified":"2014-07-16T12:43:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T19:43:14","slug":"everyone-hates-atheists-except-jews-and-atheists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18875","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Hates Atheists Except Jews And Atheists"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PF_14.07.16_interreligiousRelations_political1\" Pew has polled Americans<\/a> about how warmly they feel towards other religious groups. The graph to the left shows the results sorted by political party. <\/p>\n

It’s not surprising that Republicans really, really don’t like atheists. What’s more surprising is that Democrats really don’t like us either. A lot of that result is, I suspect, being driven by Black Evangelicals, who dislike atheists even more than other Democratic-allied groups do, scoring us a 30. The only groups that liked <\/em>atheists (that is, gave us an average score above 50) were Jews and, well, atheists. Atheists, it should be noted, raked ourselves on average “82,” which is very high – only White Evangelicals like themselves as much as atheists like ourselves. Except for Jews – us Jews really love ourselves, ranking ourselves an “88.” Most modest group: Protestants, 64. (See the table at the bottom of this post for those numbers).<\/p>\n

It’s somewhat notable that – even though conservative evangelicals pundits seem obsessed with the notion that they are The Most Hated And Discriminated Against Group In America – Democrats aren’t nearly as down on evangelicals as Republicans are down on atheists and Muslims. But, to be fair, atheists do loathe evangelicals quite a lot, scoring them a 28. In fact, the only group that hates anyone more than atheists hate evangelicals is – white evangelicals, who rate atheists a 25.<\/p>\n

I don’t really take the evangelical love for Jews very seriously – I suspect it’s more performative than it is bone-deep. Among evangelical Christians, it’s sort of a social norm to make a big show of loving Jews, presumably because the elder generation really, really, really wants to conspicuously distinguish themselves from their openly anti-Semitic parents. And good for them! That’s an understandable and positive thing for them to want to do. <\/p>\n

But they also <\/em>believe that Jews are going to burn in Hell forever, and that this is a just decision made by a just God<\/em>. So I’m having trouble feelin’ the love. (If Unitarians <\/em>say they love Jews, I believe that.) I don’t think that most evangelicals hate <\/em>Jews. I think they mostly mildly like or are indifferent to us, which is why they’re willing to tolerate the implicit anti-semitic (and anti-lotsofotherthings) in their religion. But for various prudential and cultural reasons, evangelicals feel the need to claim that they LOVE <\/em>Jews more than chocolate, when in fact they only mildly like or are indifferent to us.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, presumably due to low numbers, what Muslims think isn’t reported. Neither is what agnostics or the unaffiliated think, although I would have been interested to know, and I doubt the numbers on the unaffiliated were too low to break out.<\/p>\n

Further reading:<\/p>\n

In the Religion Popularity Contest, Atheists are in a Statistical Tie for Last Place\u2026 but There\u2019s Hope!<\/a> This is “Friendly Atheist,” who points out that the most important factor in what people think of atheists is if they know any (admitted) atheists. No, no – it turns out that those who know us are the most <\/em>likely to like us.<\/p>\n

Republicans really don\u2019t like atheists and Muslims – The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n

Poll asks: Which is your favorite faith group? Most Americans answer: My own. – The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n

Weird Pew Stats | Out of the Ortho Box<\/a> And for our final link, Ruchi Koval looks at what (according to Pew) Jews think makes us Jewish. Nothing reported on what the Reconstructionists think, but I assume they’d be like the Reform, only more so.<\/p>\n

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