Some friendly local media coverage
Because when you have the longest-running and most-awarded locally produced TV show in your community, it’s kind of hard to dismiss you utterly. But then, Austin’s always been Texas’s little progressive blue oasis in a desert of reactionary red. So when this sort of thing turns up, they’re very nice to us. Thanks, guys!
Lord Narf:
December 3rd, 2012 at 11:50 am
6% atheist? I think they messed up those numbers a bit, unless they’re counting all of the nons. Are they going by what we consider atheists, rather than self-identification?
Robert Delaney:
December 3rd, 2012 at 9:18 pm
TAE is one of the things that makes me proud to be an Austinite.
Keep up the great work.
Laura Lou:
December 4th, 2012 at 3:38 am
Are you saying it should be much lower? I thought it was much higher, like 10-15% (which includes the nons).
escuerd:
December 4th, 2012 at 5:13 am
Couldn’t find what Gallup had to say on it in 2008 (I vaguely recall something like 5% in 2012).
According to Pew, the unaffiliated consisted of consisted of 19.6%, and was comprised of:
Atheists – 2.4% (+.8 percentage points from 2007 to 2012)
Agnostics – 3.3% (+1.2)
Nothing in particular – 13.9% (+2.3)
So it looks like the number of self-identified atheists is a bit lower. If they had counted all “unaffiliated”, it’d be much bigger than 6%. I’d suspect that most of the “nothing in particular” are the SBNR type and/or vague or idiosyncratic theists. It would, of course, be dishonest to count them as atheists even if some subset of them might actually be (e.g. too closeted to tell the truth to a pollster or whatever).
Dave Offield:
December 6th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
nonholy shemolians, batman! I just happened across The Atheist Experience today and have been powering thru broadcasts one after the other.
Great show and THANKS,
another Austinite
beornborg:
December 8th, 2012 at 3:18 am
As an atheist, who enjoys watching your show, I think your callers are missing out in a great argument for the existence of a deity.
The people answering those calls could probably be considered “saints”. And sitting through some of that tortured logic could probably be considered a miracle.
Alicia:
December 12th, 2012 at 9:47 pm
That is awesome–you guys deserve even greater accolades–and I have a “feeling” they will come!