There is good bad in everything

People arrive at "truth" by many roads, but I have found that the search itself stretches the brain, so I think agnostics/atheists may be a significant % of Mensans. Early SciFi interest could suggest a flexibility of mind that can jump in and out of the box and find solutions. Math is a surprisingly painless way to develop that flexibility (among others), and tends to lead away from painful circular religious arguments. But I've been wrong before.

I would say Atheists are prone to all the other human failings, but for most of the religious ones.

I like to think it's a matter of upbringing. We, as Atheists or Agnostics, tend to cast off some or all of the norms that we were raised with, and I guess I lump religion and racism into the same bag of beliefs that we pick up from our background.

Why not?

I think there's a strain of libertarian Ayn-Rand-Fan atheists who are at least comfortable with racism. They don't think, for example, that the government should tell businesses that they must serve black customers (Rand Paul expressed sympathy with that view, but later backtracked).

Otherwise, atheists include a wide variety of people - the only thing we necessarily have in common is that we don't believe in something that others do.

I think it might depend also where in the country you live. I've known some truly accepting religious people over the years who are so open and accepting you would be surprised. I've also known non religious people who have been so closed off it was scary.

Churches, groups, political parties all seem to collect a majority of certain types according to how the leaders conduct and portray themselves so I'm not entirely sure it has to do with religion specifically or just how people in groups work. Crowd mentality is complicated and can vary according to how strict or loose views are throughout.

I would lean toward believing religious people are more racist but most of the people I've known have been religious and also in the South so...

I don't know really, I don't know why I am commenting as I know of no polls about this - I know that I was taught not to be racist by my parents who lived in the East end of London where most of the first immigrants came as a starting off place. My father was not a believer and my mother had a personal god who could whop anybody elses' god,I was taught at an early age that we are all equal citizens regardless of any differences and my mother would tell me whoever knocks at the door to let them in, But this was the 1950's and we were dependent upon nurses coming over from the Carribean to work in the understaffed NHS. Our population was depleted due to the war and I was one of the baby boomers

The only people I know who are racist are Christians.

Can't say... racism is hard to put in stats.

My experience is that atheists are much less racist ON AVERAGE. Bad apples still exist. But seems to be much fewer.

Religion is the motivating factor for many people's racism, so it isn't surprising.

It feels more that racism is geographic in nature to me. I live in the deep South of the U.S. Here it is prevalent around every corner. It is also very conservative, and there is a church around every corner. In my little town there are more churches than fast food places.

I think it is more on your location in this old world. If I lived in the U.K. I don't think it would be nearly at all. And I'm sure many U.K. folk are religious. Good question by the way.

While attending local non-believer get togethers, I have unfortunately heard some white people make gross generalizations about other ethnicites. Including the statement "if black people would just stop playing the victim and move on they would be a lot better off."

There's no direct relationship between belief and racism, or lack of belief and lack of racism. Unfortunately, there are racist atheists.

It happens that there is some coincidence between socially insular people and religiosity, at least in the United States. Being socially insular is a good way to foster racism because the socially insular only want to associate with others like themselves, and skin color, national origin, and all the rest are easy and common ways to identify someone else as different than yourself.

We as non-believers should resist the impulse to be socially insular, in my opinion, and that includes preferring to be only around other non-religious people. I'd rather see a lot of non-religious people with religious friends, behaving morally and generously and being good friends, good neighbors, and good citizens, quietly confident in their non-theism. There's no better way I can think of to demonstrate to the religious people in the world that you don't need God to be good.

In my experience they generally are not. But that's not to say that they were not racist at one point in their lives, but at least they have the capacity for logic that furthers their thinking and reasoning. That pretty much takes care of racist ideas.

First, I need to understand what is meant by 'racist." Personally, as a AA womun who has lived in a supremacist institutionalized/systemic racist system, I think some, many, a few, most atheist can and are just as racist as some, many, a few, most religious persons.

Yes, race does define and should define. The humyn race consists of many a diversity of people ad difference is good and should be valued.

Again, I say there must be an honest and realistic understanding of what racism is and how it expresses itself and exists in this society. Personally, I have met very few truly good spiritual, humynistic people and too many who profess to be Christian, godly [whatever that is] etc. and vey bad and evil

We are not the same and should not be. We are all different. We are not all racist...I, as a womun of African heritage, am prejudice about many things and work everyday to distinguish between realistic prejudices [those that are beneficial to my survival in a supremacist, racist institutionalized/systemic culture] and those that are just down right unrealistic so that they will not have such an unhealthy impact on my life and the life of others. but I try not to get into discussions on racism unless there has been a clear cut understanding of what it is.

Yes, that's how Trump got elected.

racism I've come to discover is more of a geopolitical issue than anything else because I've lived in towns where there are no black people and no racists but then I've lived in towns where there were no black people in a bunch of racist and vice a versa and can also say it would be more along the grounds of how you were raised but I lived in a small Backwoods codone town where there were no black people + 50 y Del righties

I think to be atheist is maybe to be a freer thinker, possibly more acceptant of other belief systems because they don't threaten us - I would never ever put down someone else's defence system against a cruel world - if it helps to believe in something that eases the pain of humanity - I'm all for it - sometimes I wish I had that simplicity myself & yes I share your last sentiment - and I was brought up to make my own mind up freely about what my spirituality would be.

Probably on a percentage basis.

By statistics no but then again racism is very high among the blind(that seems ironic doesn't it?). In Australia where I'm from the Census dipped Christians all the was way down to 52% total, Catholics at about 32% of that which are the least willing to change area of mainstream Christianity. Next 'religious group was Islam as 2.5%. Though after Christian about 30% ticked non-religious. That number used to be 60 and then 90% years before that. People are protective of their group, so if you're out to 'get' Christians you're after the majority and maybe these non-believers are trolls. I think there should be freedom unless it impedes another's freedom and your religious or lack of religious belief shouldn't matter.

Racism is not entirely linked with racism. Some atheists and agnostics are still quite racist.

Not in my experience, no. I'm sure there are some out there though.

If anything, I've found that atheists are a lot less likely to be racist (or even very judgmental in general). They are usually people who have the ability to think things through and not leap for the first convenient answer...I believe this results in atheists being more open-minded and accepting of differences in others...To put it another way, I doubt that there are many atheists at KKK rallies