Thank god for atheists.
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1 2hPew Research: Religious groups and vaccinations
Most vaccinated: 90% of atheists have received at least one COVID vaccine dose.
Least vaccinated: 57% of white evangelicals have received at least one COVID vaccine dose.
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Weird, indeed. 
I know I'm not. 
the expression just doesn’t sit well - feels odd to me. Another generational thing I guess as it seems to be people in their 30s and younger who say it.
I guess someone in the U.S. appropriated the expression, or some Aussie ex-pats used it and it just caught on.
I wouldn't spend a whole lot of time worrying about it.
but sheesh I’m not keeping up with the times.
I do find it fascinating how language shifts and changes - from new phrases to new meanings for existing words. It’s just not organic to me anymore. Such is life.
72, soon to turn 73. I think the world is such a small place now that different sayings just mesh into each other's lexicon. The inter-webs, and all that. We even have those commie Ruskies trying to interfere in our elections now!
G'day mate.
amazing like…’
It the language version of pants hanging on your bum, a trend I still see and which can’t go away fast enough for me! 
aren't they? Ghoulish lot, them sky pilots. 
deep in prayer and song unmasked. Good luck with that 
with everything they've been indoctrinated with.
You'd think they'd relish the fluffy white clouds, angels playing harps, old friends and dear relatives awaiting their arrival, having their very own room in god's house, and all that.
That's a very interesting observation, flying_wahini. Can you offer any insight into this seeming contradiction? Could it be they're not as certain about their after death destination as they profess to be?
Almost as if they realize their religious "death story" is complete horse-shit right from the get-go.
Comparing ALL atheists, whatever their background, race, other demographics with white evangelicals, a very small sliver of religious people, doesn't tell us much of anything - any more than comparing, say, white atheists with Black Jews would Tell us about whether atheists are more likely to get vaccinated than religious people.
The percentage of atheists vs. non-atheists would tell us something. This means nothing.
Even looking at the limited groups of religious people in the Pew poll, the numbers are very different than the tweet suggests. While atheists do report a high percentage of vaccinations - 90% - some other non-believers have much lower numbers. Catholics and Protestants also have a high degree of vaccination - up to 86% for some of them. But oddly, Pew doesn't include statistics for Black Catholics in this report
It also doesn't include Jews or Muslims or Hindus or any other religious group besides Protestants and Catholics in its report. So this poll really tells us nothing about the difference in vaccination rates between Atheists and religious people But it does tell us more than this meaningless tweet lets on.
https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2021/09/15/covid19-restrictions-appendix/ps_2021-09-15_covid19-restrictions_a-01/
