For the last several years, my work as an interfaith activist has been largely defined by a single question: “Wait — you do interfaith work, and you’re an atheist?!”
That question, posed by religious people (to be fair, I’ve gotten that question from many atheists, though usually for a different reason-for more on that, check out this recent piece I wrote on atheists and interfaith work), is usually followed by a confession that the individual offering it hasn’t met many atheists. I often push back on this a bit, inviting them to think about whether they truly don’t know any atheists. Even after further consideration, most cannot think of a single atheist they know personally.
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