I have a few customers that are religious and I don't tell them I'm an atheist. Most of my customers are left on the political spectrum and I don't tell them that I'm not.

As someone else pointed out, this is akin to taking a political position. I am a former commodities broker at the Chicago Board of Trade. I specialized in the grains so all my clients were farmers---who were probably Republican and very Christian. I made it a point to be politically neutral. I would never lie but it's pretty easy to talk around something a potential client might say. I even got really good at answering questions in a way that wasn't a lie but was vague. I liked the idea of making money off of people who didn't know they were dealing with an extremely liberal, hardcore atheist, artsy, big-city nerd type. TAKE THE MONEY!!!!

Straight up fuck their feelings, they are what's wrong in the world

Straight up fuck their feelings, they are what's wrong in the world

well, i am not a business owner per se but i am a writer. if i submit a piece of writing to someone, if the writing isn't about religion, there is no way the recipient knows or should know i am an atheist unless they know me personally (i'm not shy about it). it's irrelevant to the business transaction.

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You're religion, or lack there-of is none of their business. I wouldn't outright lie about it, as that could bite you in the ass (i.e., you are not considered honest and trustworthy), but just because someone assumes something about you, that's on them.

And as a side note, would the service you provide or they expected be any different if you were Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Satanist, Atheist? If no, then as far as your business goes...it doesn't matter.

Finally, just did a search for Harrison Arkansas on google, and the auto fill first choice was "Harrison Arkansas KKK Headquarters". In a town of "Christians" that would allow that kind of hate group to be headquartered...I wouldn't give a rats ass about what they thought, assumed, or believed. You're personal life and beliefs are just that, personal.

Are you a monopoly? Without customers you don't have a business, and if there's one way to lose customers, it's taking a political stance, which in your case, would be seen as anti-religious, if made public. There's really nothing about selling or fixing computers that requires a religious litmus test, in theory, of course.

There is no reason to advertise it. I work in a politically-charged job where I have to deal with Republicans and Democrats. If I advertised my political leanings, there’s a lot of folks I couldn’t work with effectively. Thrre’s nothing deceptive about it. It’s how you have to function in today’s polarized world. And let’s face it; religion is definitely politicized.

I'm a part owner of a business in New Orleans. I've had weird reactions with clients when I'm told them I was an atheist. I had one of my main point of contact tell me that she didn't believe I was really an atheist. It just something I say. I never lost a client over it... Yet

I don't say anything unless someone says something first, and being the owner of a funeral home, a lot of people are having religious services, so I say nothing, nod, smile and try not to groan when they tell me the butterfly they saw in the garden was their dad/mom/son/ etc...

I don't mix business and religion. That said, I live in the Bible Belt and keep a 2' tall Buddha statue and a 2' tall statue of Ganesha at my front door. It keeps the Mormons and JWs away.

I never brought mine up. I once worked in an abortion clinic when I was straight out of college and mentioned it offhandedly to my boss. I was shenned for the remaining year of the job.

I am not thoroughly convinced that there’s such a thing as a Bible Belt.

Very Good question! I don't know. I'm very untrusting of them to even talk much with most Christians, been burned by their hatred too many times. Looking foreword to seeing some of your replies.

I once posted a small Zombie Jesus poster in my cubicle, and 2 days later my Evangelical bosses boss canceled my project and laid me off. I avoid religion at work.

I never see any reason to correct the religious They will never believe you.

Nobody's business but your own. I'm sure your not going to go around with an AK 47 on your shoulder as promotional advertising. ROR Rots of Rocks.