How America Sees Atheists, Part One: The View From Outside

A brass wall thermometer mounted on a teal-green wall
Photo: A S M Jobaer, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

For as long as pollsters have been ranking groups of Americans, atheists have finished at or near the bottom of every list they make. Least trusted. Coldest rated. Last hired for the jobs that involve other people’s children. And the strangest part is who is doing the ranking: people who, by their own admission, mostly don’t know any of us. They are not rating neighbors. They are rating an idea.

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Experience is a Deficit Now

Looking at some posts over on Linkedin, I came across a post by an. older Information Technology person (I guess)complaining the way he was interviewed by someone in HR at a prospective company. This had me angry one second and laughing the next because, well, as someone that has a long career in IT, I’ve been through the same situation multiple times. I’ve come to call it, The Runaround.

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