i really don't know what the people in my community believe. i don't get out much. i do go thrice a week to adult daycare (haven't been going lately because i've had pneumonia) and all the daycares are religiously affiliated. this one is affiliated with a jewish senior residence, which means our meals are kosher, but the clientele are not all jewish, and none of the staff is jewish. so i know, among them, who is and who isn't, as i get to know them, but only one client is religious to the extent of being annoying, and he is mentally impaired (and overall obnoxious -- and seems unaware of being in a jewish-affiliated establishment, since he is noisily christian). no one else ever discusses religion except if you mention pork or ham or mixing milk and meat, in which case they may say no thanks (not that any such thing is served there). jews don't proselytize, at any rate! so it's peaceful except when this one guy acts up. who actually believes in a god, as opposed to just self-identifying with a religion, i do not know, apart from one developmentally disabled catholic who responds to any mention of death with a declaration that the deceased is in heaven. as for the staff, i know one of them is an atheist like me, so we talk about it sometimes just because it's nice to meet a fellow nonbeliever. but all in all, we do and talk about other stuff, and it doesn't come up at all!

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You may want to check out meetup.com to see if there are any atheist/agnostic social groups near you. This website is hardly a representation of all agnostics/atheists in any one area. I put posts on Facebook to try to help promote this site. Also, when I know I am going out on errandes, that is the day when I wear my Agnostics.com T-shirt. People need help to find the site.

I'm in agreement with most comments on this subject. I'm in Grand Rapids, mi, a city that is extremely religious. Hard to find someone to talk to much less date in this town. Yes in America everybody has the right to believe what they want. But the question is to believe, or actually live life by what you see. Its science that is the true. There are so few of us that can actually see this. But more and more are coming out everyday, hard to believe we are a minority, but we are. It will take many more decades for people to see. We as nonreligious people need to not behave like the " believers " and not be haters. If we hate we are being just as bad. Let's rise above and just let everyone be.

Actually most Agnostic’s and Atheist’’s Do Not want to be bother with most or around religious mentality!!!

“Fuck them if they can not take a joke”!!!

If you are that worried about how others think of you are just as messed up mentally as those religious moronic idiots are!

If you fit in without being pegged as abnormal, why stay aboard a sinking ship!

I am here for the community. There may be more agnostics than you think. It also depends on where you live and how rural of an area it is. The more rural areas tend to be more religious as does the south. I am shocked at how many atheist and agnostics I run into.

Yup not many

Not surprising at all where I live as everything in this neck of the rural southern woods is jesus, trump, and guns. At least with a major university close by, I can escape the vapidness now and then.

As to online... There was a small number here to begin with, then that number grew, but along with that growth came the trolls, religious nuts, and political whackos, which largely ruined things. I cannot tell, now, if the activity has dropped precipitously or if my content filters have finally kicked in (allowing me to see only those posts that are not religious, political, etc). I was surprised that the site degraded into a scrapping match just like the sites I was escaping in such short time. I figure I am in the minority preferring friendly conversation to such, which makes me sad.

I live in the south and have a very Jewish name so in these parts no Jesus no heaven so I musty be an atheist. For me, I’m on the fence and have more doubts than anything but admit it would be nice to have something, I just don’t.

I wish I could find a community here in Alabama, in my local area, Central Alabama. The closest I could find was in Birmingham. Maybe I will start a Facebook group or something. I feel so isolated sometimes. It's nice to atleast have an online place to meet other atheists.

I think the poster was just saying it's hard to find others where he lives and is probably wondering other than this site how the rest of us do....do we join an agnostic club. So we have kids with a catholic and stay home but send the rest of the family to church?..fun stuff like that.

I relocated south - no surprise at all.

And this is not specifically a dating site - though sometimes, the opportunity might appear !

Small town Florida here

Well, I stopped worrying about dating. When things must happen, they will. Probably I'll make a fool of myself for telling this story but fuck it!!! Many years ago, going to a birthday party, I was talking to a guy that I knew that was going to the same party, so a few girls that were going there as well showed up. We started talking and this guy all looking evil and who had participated on a video of a Portuguese bimbo music artist passed by. One of the girls said: "Here's Abilio, hit him!!!" In Portuguese, "Batam-lhe!". I understood "Batam-me!!!", which means "Hit me!!!". I punched the girl... she must have liked it as we started going out... Didn't work but there's always this stupid story to tell...

I seem to know all the locals. I'm here for community.

I was more surprised at how many there were, just on this site. Makes me wonder how many there are total.

There's a lot fewer non-believers across the board so pichings are slimmer for them everywhere.