<p>Hmm.. you mentioned some southern schools.. do you know anything about Rice?</p>
<p>I go to Rice and atheists are completely accepted. There is a "secular students" group that is indeed outnumbered by the campus crusade for christ, but I imagine it's the same everywhere. Rice is definitely not as "Southern"/"Texan" as it's surroundings... or really at all for that matter.</p>
<p>Sweet, thanks!!!</p>
<p>I'm from Tennessee (eww), I'm going to Rice (yay!), and I'm a Pastafarian (awesome). When I visited, I asked some students about the "relgiousness" of the college. All said that there were a reasonable number of religious clubs (mostly Christian). However, quite a few of the people that I have met that are going to Rice are nonreligious, agnostic, atheist, and Pastafarian. So I don't that I will be ostracized. :]</p>
<p>I think the majority of my friends at Rice are non-religious. Certainly non-christian.</p>
<p>That is just my friends, though, I don't know if that's true campus wide.</p>
<p>More reasons to consider rice :D</p>
<p>sexycani wrote: "@atrophicwhisper, I feel the same way. To me, atheism is my best "guess" because I won't absolutely know that God exists or doesn't exist. "</p>
<p>-- then you are an agnostic, not an atheist. Atheism is simply another kind of religion, with different assertions of truth, dogma, etc.</p>
<p>At least 30-40% of students on ANY campus will be agnostic. Maybe 0.5% will be religiously atheist, if you know what I mean.</p>
<p>woot yeahallie. Ahh the grace that be the flying spaghetti monster. I am so happy to find someone else who has been touched by his noodle-lee-ness!</p>
<p>In the name of the father,
Ramen!</p>
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<p>But also produced Ann Coulter, FYI.</p>
<p>DunninLA, I don't agree with your views on atheism, but that's for another time.
atrophicwhisper, the same thought also came to my mind, but Cornell's history is nevertheless very interesting =)</p>
<p>Which schools have the kind of atmosphere where you'd actually have to APOLOGIZE in advance for your religiousness? The kind of place where atheism is the default presumption about all other students? The kind of place where people would be comfortable openly ridiculing religion in class because of the low likelihood of anyone in attendance being offended?</p>
<p>I'd say Vanderbilt is probably not an atheist fit. The East Coast schools in the South are probably a little better for that type of thing.</p>
<p>Dicey, haha would there be such place in the United States? Even if there was one, I'm not sure if I would be so eager to attend but it does make me wonder if there are such colleges.</p>
<p>palmettotree, you go to Vanderbilt?</p>
<p>Personally, I would love to attend such a college; I find religiosity to be a mind-boggling phenomenon, especially among the well-educated who should know better. Unfortunately, I happen to reside in the US, a country where almost half the population believes that the world is less than 10,000 years old.</p>
<p>I'm not too fond of religion either, but a college where students have to "apologize" for their religions excite and worry me at the same time.</p>
<p>To be fair, I don't think anyone should have to apologize for being religious, as one's personal beliefs have no bearing upon others; however, I'd like an environment in which religious people are viewed in the same light as, say, chronic nose-pickers. Rationally, I know that any form of such social ostracism would needlessly and detrimentally affect those bearing its brunt without having any positive outcome. Nonetheless, I'd enjoy it in a petty vindictive manner.</p>
<p>We see eye-to-eye on this one.</p>