Indiana Atheists

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Comment by Jude Johnson on August 8, 2008 at 12:11am

Joe: I think you're right about the under 30 crowd. I'm 37 and most coworkers consider me to be a kid (I love it). So although most are educated, most are also old enough to be my parents. I'd be curious to know what the average age of AN members is.

My first guess at a reason for this would be that the public school system started teaching evolution sometime between their early educations and mine.

I remember being taught 'creationism' in Sunday school but I accepted it as another set of childhood fairytales and shed them along with Santa. (I miss Santa...)

I like your assumptive approach. It seems very reasonable to speak about factual information in a non-subversive manner.

Comment by Joe on August 7, 2008 at 9:21pm

Jude.... I find plenty that don't agree. My 'assuming that all are atheists" in many situations is really just the way I approach things. I think it is my little way to try to shake up the system. If I talk in a way that doesn't make it look like my thoughts are subversive, maybe they will, eventually, be more accepted.

I do tip-toe around it if the other person is higher in the food chain at work or older family members.

The under 30 crowd seems to have a much higher percentage of non-believers.

Comment by Jude Johnson on August 6, 2008 at 9:45am

Hi Joe, and welcome!

You find a good bit of agreement in your circles? I wish I could say the same.

Far from being able to assume that everyone is an atheist, I've found myself to be quite wrong to assume that most people will agree with what's already been proven scientifically. I work in an office of professionals -- we are computer specialists, technical writers, graphic designers, and administrators -- and I'm hard-put to find people who will consider evolution, for example, as any more than one possible (if not unlikely) theory. Many of them seem to go with the 'theory' that earth is less than 8000 years old and there seems to be no evidence which would convince them otherwise.

If this attidute represented the minority, I would most likely just ignore them, but sometimes it's like I'm living in some kind of Twilight Zone where I'm the only one who can tell there's an elephant in the room.

I find intellectual conversations very challenging with people who don't believe in Reason. That's why I'm here!

Jude

Comment by Joe on August 6, 2008 at 7:35am

Lafayette here. There may only be 16 in here but we are everywhere. My philosophy over the last few years is to assume that everyone is an atheist rather than walking on eggshells. A good percentage of people seem to agree with us at least on some level.

Comment by Jude Johnson on August 3, 2008 at 10:30pm

Hoosier sick of religious crap??
That describes me!
Hello Hoosier atheists!
-Good to know I'm not alone.

I wrote a ridiculously long profile entry, if anyone cares to scan it.
I've seen others interested in forming a discussion group and I'm interested. Let's discuss it and see if we're on the same page.

#14 -- woo hoo!

Comment by stewy.cvl on August 1, 2008 at 10:41pm

Indiana population: 6,000,000-6,500,000
Indiana atheist population on the nexus: 13
Pretty sad... INVITE YER FRIENDS!
Unfortunately all mine are theists :(
At least they are good and genuine people... but if you know any atheist Hoosiers, tell them about us!

Comment by stewy.cvl on July 31, 2008 at 8:52pm

Anyone here from Crawfordsville? No? Ok...

Comment by Jeremy on July 28, 2008 at 3:47pm

Im in Anderson i as well im interested in organizing meeting between us atheist/freethinkers. Someone at some point told me there was something already like that in indy i havent had a chance to look into it yet though.

Comment by kyle on July 24, 2008 at 10:34pm

I would love to either find or start a group for those of us in Indianapolis. I like to hear from anyone else intrested.

Comment by Janie Danger on July 23, 2008 at 7:28pm

Shout out to any Indianapolis folks...Good to see everyone here. It would be great to see this group grow and perhaps be a catalyst for a more active Atheist community here in the Hoosier state.

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