Apparently, it's not terrorism or bird flu or those melting polar ice caps. It's a godless heathen like myself showing up at the door to announce "I'm going to marry your daughter."
So says a new study from the University of Minnesota:
"Church attenders, conservative Protestants, and those reporting high religious saliency are less likely to approve of intermarriage with an atheist and more likely to say that atheists do not share their vision of American society..." In respect to the former, the survey presented respondents with the following statement: "I would disapprove if my child wanted to marry a member of this group."
Once again, Atheists were at the apex of this negative-image cohort at 47.6%, followed by Muslims (33.5%); African Americans (27.2%); Asian Americans (18.5%); Hispanics (18.5%); Jews (11.8%); conservative Christians (6.9%) and Whites at 2.3%.
So what the survey says then is that even if you do not believe in Heaven, once you meet your in-laws, you will believe in Hell?
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