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Does anyone know of a town or city where the majority of residents are atheists or agnostics?

Treasurehunter 6 Apr 10
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I can agree personally with the Portland data mentioned here. Just from personal experience, I'd think that San Francisco is pretty high, too.

That's cause their smokin weed! Lol?

@Coldo Comments like this do not help either of our causes.

@Wrytyr Doesn't mean it's not funny. 🙂

Portland elected openly proud Atheist Mayor Bud Clark TWICE over 35 years ago his closest opposition was a radical rethuglican xian who told voters their biblical duty was to defeat the evil Atheist....Bud Clark is world famous for his local photo labeled : " EXPOSE YOURSELF TO ART " downtown Portland has a lifesize bronze nude woman sculpture and BUD had his back to the camera his hands stretching out OPEN his full length raincoat the classic FLASHING a penis pose ....Portland has DOZENs of art galleries he promoted as Mayor in a city with PREMIERE World Class public transit trollies trains so many FULL buses that often follow each other

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All of Sweedon...... All of Finland... Most of Germany.... Lots of Las Vegas....

I would move to Las Vegas if I had the money to .

Las Vegas has a strong Mormon base. Gambling tends to taint the rest of the city. I don't care for it.

@GeorgeRocheleau I live in Vegas it’s easy to avoid the gambling but hard to avoid the cultish mormons/LDS crowd. But extremely easy to pick out the jack-mormons.

@GeorgeRocheleau Las Vegas. Thrown out of a dance club for dancing with another woman. There were no gay bars permitted on the "Strip". But it is a strong union town & there are always employment of some kind. Las Vegas is more liberal now days as is the country. The farther north one goes the more hard right the politics. Reno, Carson City, Elko.

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Not sure, might be worth looking up, I'd be curious to know such myself.

The trouble with the more liberal atheist cities is that’s those place’s also have the most gun control laws. I think I’d just as soon live with the pro-gun Christains as to live with the liberal atheist gun grabbers.

@Trajan61 You're right about that.

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In the U.S., teh largest major city that is hte least religious is Portland, Oregon.

You would hoever do better to look outside of the U.S. tofind larger numbers of atheists.

I liked western Oregon when I was there. I have done the Pacific coast highway from San Diego to Fransisco. Then from Seattle to San Fransisco. I need a dry climate & this is rain forest country.

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I doubt there would be a majority of atheists / agnostics except in some small anomalous Podunk somewhere -- and then I doubt you could find out from public data because these things are seldom asked and even more seldom given honest answers to in surveys, and they generally only survey large cities.

The best indicator would be the ranking of how religious cities or metropolitan areas are, which is at least in part a measure of how many "Nones" there are relative to specific religious affiliations. Some of that data also comes from asking people if they go to church and how often, and similar questions. They are only rough indicators of their actual thinking.

For example you can go here:

<a href="http://ava.prri.org/#religious/2015/MetroAreas/religion/16" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="forumlink">[ava.prri.org]

... and sort the "Unaffiliated" column by clicking on it, and you'll see Portland and Seattled tied at 37% "unaffiliated" which I assume is atheists, agnostics and theists who have no church affiliation. That means 63% of people even in those cities are still officially religious, and quite a few of the remainder are still in sway to some form of religious faith.

Ironically "sin city", aka Las Vegas, is not at the top of the list.

Wrong.... Sweedon is almost all atheists...

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Toronto , oakville , montreal,

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I would like to move from fairly religious town I live in.

I would suggest figuring out what you truly must have around you, to live happily, and mold your choice around that. Jobs are fairly plentiful everywhere so there's no better time to get repositioned. The money might not be as much (addressing a wider audience here but if the shoe fits...) but lesser paying jobs are not necessarily bad jobs. Maybe rethink what you thought life was going to be and really go for what you want as your overall driver. Small towns can work well for that, too.

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Las Vegas and Atlantic City?

Gambling actually tends to breed religious sentiment b/c luck is a blessing from God. An answer to prayer. I worked in casinos for 23 years and saw many "players" fondling rosaries or praying at machines.

@SeaGreenEyez, I also drove Uber in Tacoma, WA, and was rather surprised by the number of Churches. They tend to be religious affiliated but not very dogmatic. Earthy people often have a sense of spirituality and the founders of NW cities were largely Christians.

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Most European and scandinavian ones.

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There is a secrete order out there. They want to remain infamous.

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About 42% of the New Zealand population identifies as "no religion" and this percentage is increasing. (Census)
My opinion: a lot of those who identify as Christian in the census aren't necessarily practicing Christians.

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Any large liberal city will have lots of Atheists. A majority? Probably not. College towns (with a secular university of course) might be worth checking out.

Stay out of the bible or rust belts. From my personal experience, Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle and the SF Bay Area / Silicon Valley are good places to live.

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I live in Portland and there are plenty of atheists, but there are also plenty of people who practice psuedo-buddhism and other types of spirituality. To be hones, I think I prefer a moderate christian to new age spirituality.

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Stockholm, Reykjavik; Oslo.

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This article names Seattle.

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Maybe Northampton when Bradlaugh was elected 5 times MP always an Atheist refusing to swear to queen AND YOUR ALLEGED church of England gawd geebush jeehobah ghostholes as for Agnostics find a Huxley cult in Wales somewhere

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Tokyo

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I like religious people as my neighbors, yet all my religious girlfriends dumped me because I cannot be saved. Don't get too close. Most often you will find non believer countries are more financially better off

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