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What's some really unpopular opinion you have? (lemmings.world)

submitted 1 year ago by rikudou@lemmings.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it's actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that's really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

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[–] noughtnaut@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hmm, I respect your point of view but suspect that it is shaped by your experience. Here's my stereotypical thought: I wonder if you're in the USA. Because to many of us in other parts of the world, y'all are insanely focused on religion. It is not like that everywhere.

I consider myself an agnostic (don't believe in a higher power), but when confronted with insistent christians I readily pivot into atheism (that a higher power does not and cannot exist).

It seems to me that many of those who are seen as atheist are "merely" agnostic, and this misinterpretation stems from a fundamental(ist) "if you're not with us you're against us" belief system.

(upvoted for a good "unpopular opinion" though)