In the tech world I always though diversity meant Apple vs. Windows vs. Linux. Firefox vs. Explorer. Nano vs. VI. As to religion - I'm a Realist. I believe in everything that is real and disbelieve everything that isn't real. In fact I own a registered trademark on the word "REALITY". And yes - we Atheist/Humanist/Realists are the oppressed minority and therefore we add diversity. On 1/31/2013 11:26 PM, Andrew A. Adams wrote: > Marc, > > Diversity is indeed a difficult subject but the difficulty of getting it > perfect should not prevent us from making efforts where it is feasible. > > The questions of religion and political viewpoint are some of the thorniest > ones, since there is dispute about how much religion and political viewpoint > are "inherited" and how much are "by choice". Of course race is also socially > defined and dependent on geography and time period (there was a recent > article on how "Latinos" in the USA may soon come to be viewed as "White" in > much the same way that Jews are now mostly so-regarded despite historically > being a significantly oppressed group. > > As we're both variants of atheist/humanist, I'm not sure how productive a > discussion between us on the status of religion could be. > >