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Comment author: Swimmer963 07 March 2011 12:40:35PM 0 points [-]

Possibly true. I wouldn't say that atheists are a "small minority" in my community. (I live in Canada.) This may change things. And many of the "atheists" I know certainly haven't made that step from atheism to humanism.

Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 07 March 2011 02:49:57PM 2 points [-]

I wouldn't say that atheists are a "small minority" in my community. (I live in Canada.)

Ah, then I apologize. When I see the phrase "evangelical Christian community," I immediately think of the U.S.

I think that seeing the hold religion has on much of the world, even if it's outside one's own country, could still engender the behavior I described in the first paragraph above. However, it probably is more related to my latter point.