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See:

http://newsjunkiepost.com/2009/09/19/research-finds-that-atheists-are-most-hated-and-distrusted-minority/

If you are a gay hispanic athiest then not much hope of getting trusted LOL!!

I am proud to be an anti-thiest.

Well, I for one am not surprised. When the collection plate comes by, I reach in and jingle the change to make it sound like I left an offering.

I'm sorry but I just don't trust anything written by someone with a name like Ole Ole Olson. Not gonna happen.

joeyveras saidI'm sorry but I just don't trust anything written by someone with a name like Ole Ole Olson. Not gonna happen.

Don't believe it. Follow the link in the post, and verify it yoursefl:
http://www.soc.umn.edu/~hartmann/files/atheist as the other.pdf

mickeytopogigio said

joeyveras saidI'm sorry but I just don't trust anything written by someone with a name like Ole Ole Olson. Not gonna happen.

Don't believe it. Follow the link in the post, and verify it yoursefl:
http://www.soc.umn.edu/~hartmann/files/atheist as the other.pdf

LOL! I was joking

Oh, sorry.

You should trust far more in people who talk to imaginary beings than people who don't.

In Calvin's "Upside-Down World", that is.

"Reached for reaction to the survey, a spokesperson for the American Agnostic Association said, 'Really, I don't know what to believe.'"

Momentum_Play said"Reached for reaction to the survey, a spokesperson for the American Agnostic Association said, 'Really, I don't know what to believe.'"

LOL - hehehehehehehehe

Not surprising, but truly sad really.

Doubtful i'd say every Catholic & Christian are the most unrelieable FUCKS around...But it could just be me being an Agnostic dude

Momentum_Play said"Reached for reaction to the survey, a spokesperson for the American Agnostic Association said, 'Really, I don't know what to believe.'"

Win!

I took a look at Offshore's link and to me this is an interesting topic of discussion. Why Americans in general distrusts atheists- when you consider that 51% believe in Creation, thus a larger proportion of Americans profess a religious commitment - is a bit of a mystery. Even as a Christian myself, I have met kind hearted atheists and I have met church-goers with sour personalities - the sort you wouldn't invite to your house party or social.
I always believe that trust in another person depends on the individual character rather than religious commitment. On the other hand, I would much sooner trust a Christian - fundamental or liberal - than a Muslim.
But something else occured at the linked website - intelligence and religious affiliation. After clicking "intelligence" this is what I have found:

In 1975 Norman Poythress studied 234 U.S. college undergraduates and found that religious believers are less intelligent and more authoritarian than skeptics.

What seems like a contradiction, also in the USA, the 2004 General Social Survey found that 30.7% of graduates attend church regularly, which is marginally higher than less educated groups. The highest percentage of non-church goers were the early school-leavers which has the lowest levels of education.

Of Mormons, 41% of those with an elementary school education regularly attend church. Of college graduates, on the other hand, 76% attend regularly, and Mormons with post-graduate degrees, 78% of them attend church on a regular basis.

These surveys are not connected with hetero- or homosexuality.

Am I confused here? Is there a difference between intelligence and level of education? Or is there a contradiction?

Oh please.....We, (Athiests), are the most mistrusted?!?
When there are repuGlicans and christians out there? Now that's a bloody joke!
Cheers,
Keith

I am an atheist and I don't trust these statistics.

id trust an athiest b4 i trust any1 running this government out of the bible.

I thought politicians were the least trusted group in America.

Not all that surprising for me. My friend is living in the US right now and he is an athiest, and some of the shit he has to deal with is just unbelievable. Fortunately it doesn't really appear to be an issue in Canada.

Even though I'm Pagan I trust Atheists. I was raised by my grandmother as a Pagan. Atheists though... They have amazing minds. They understand yet reject the conformity. It's funnicular that way.