November 20, 2006  What's a Little Atheist-Bashing Among
Friends?  Working out the angles Working out the angles (Photo
credit: psiaki) If you are like me, most of the people you spend
time with are Christian. Like most employed people, I spend the
vast majority of my waking hours at work. All of my co-workers
are either Christian or Jewish, and religion does periodically
come up, even though it is by no means a frequent topic. The
most common way it comes up is in the form of references to
church (e.g., "I know him from church," "The other day at
church...," etc.). However, it also comes up at times in the
context of poking fun at Muslims or atheists.  I am not what
you'd call openly atheist at work. My co-workers know that I do
not attend church, but this is about the extent of it. I suspect
they simply assume that I am a lapsed Christian; however, nobody
has ever posed the question directly. I wold be honest to direct
questions, but I have not seen it as being in my best interest
to volunteer this informat