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Rob Reiner was an Atheist. (Original Post) Sector 001 3 hrs ago OP
So am I. SamKnause 3 hrs ago #1
Same. I held on to belief until I was in my early 20's. QueerDuck 3 hrs ago #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Goonch 2 hrs ago #8
Me too. Traildogbob 3 hrs ago #3
And..... so? Srkdqltr 3 hrs ago #4
It may not matter much overall but it may matter to some. chowder66 13 min ago #23
Me too. NNadir 3 hrs ago #5
So was his father, Carl Reiner. no_hypocrisy 2 hrs ago #6
Loved Carl Reiner. He was a gem. His son was an equally wonderful chip off the old block. paleotn 19 min ago #20
Agnostic here.... anciano 2 hrs ago #7
I'm not smart enough to know whether God exists or not. OAITW r.2.0 2 hrs ago #10
Atheist, but I get your meaning. paleotn 13 min ago #22
;-{) I'm in WITSEC Goonch 2 hrs ago #9
but he was also a Jew mountain grammy 1 hr ago #11
I happened to be watching CBS the evening the first episode of All in the Family aired. John1956PA 1 hr ago #12
Lifelong Atheist here Escape 1 hr ago #13
I think most people are really agnostics Wifes husband 42 min ago #18
Christian here. hamsterjill 48 min ago #14
Why should I care??? TNNurse 46 min ago #15
I am not really understanding why this is considered important?????? Bev54 45 min ago #16
me too. barbtries 44 min ago #17
I'm like,,,,,,, LilElf70 37 min ago #19
Just means he was a rational thinker rhiannon55 15 min ago #21
I'm an agnostic married to an atheist lindalou65 6 min ago #24

Response to SamKnause (Reply #1)

Traildogbob

(12,429 posts)
3. Me too.
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 04:44 PM
3 hrs ago

And fucking proud of it. Religion made me so. At least American religion did, especially GQP version.
Jesus turned me woke. Like him. Unacceptable to White Jesus, according to Megan Kelly the quintessential Christian of American faith.
I follow the darker version of Jesus.

chowder66

(11,744 posts)
23. It may not matter much overall but it may matter to some.
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:41 PM
13 min ago

I came out as an atheist long before really anyone I knew did. Some would say they were agnostic and that I was too.... which was interesting to be told what I was by others. So many people pushed back. It was tiresome.

It's nice to know that he (and his father) was also one.

paleotn

(21,360 posts)
20. Loved Carl Reiner. He was a gem. His son was an equally wonderful chip off the old block.
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:34 PM
19 min ago

anciano

(2,132 posts)
7. Agnostic here....
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 04:55 PM
2 hrs ago

I believe we are one with Nature, that we are just as much a part of the natural world as waves are to the ocean.

OAITW r.2.0

(31,268 posts)
10. I'm not smart enough to know whether God exists or not.
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 05:52 PM
2 hrs ago

So agnostic. However, over the past 40 years or so, I've come to realize that; if a God exist, he surely doesn't give a fuck about us.

paleotn

(21,360 posts)
22. Atheist, but I get your meaning.
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:40 PM
13 min ago

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. We all eventually cycle back into the food web. For me, that's vastly more comforting than some celestial penthouse. And why would we deserve that? We're but a nanosecond in deep time if even that.

mountain grammy

(28,595 posts)
11. but he was also a Jew
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 06:04 PM
1 hr ago

"What kind of Jew are you? The atheist kind"... from the Kominsky Method, and the late, great Alan Arkin

I'm sure Rob laughed at that, like all of us atheist Jews.. Being Jewish is far more than faith or belief. we're a tribe.

John1956PA

(4,716 posts)
12. I happened to be watching CBS the evening the first episode of All in the Family aired.
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 06:50 PM
1 hr ago

His character, Mike Stivic, and Gloria indicated in conversation with Archie and Edith that they did not believe in the existence of God.

Escape

(364 posts)
13. Lifelong Atheist here
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 06:50 PM
1 hr ago

Most of the decent, honest and rational people I've met in my 7 decades are Atheists.

Almost all of the worst people I've met were deeply religious.

It's been an easy call.

hamsterjill

(16,901 posts)
14. Christian here.
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:06 PM
48 min ago

But every person gets to decide their own path. And no one is more than another.

LilElf70

(1,337 posts)
19. I'm like,,,,,,,
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:16 PM
37 min ago

Yeah, so what.

And I'm not agnostic, nor an athiest.

He and his wife were great people.

rhiannon55

(2,766 posts)
21. Just means he was a rational thinker
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:38 PM
15 min ago

No place in his mind for idiotic fairy tales. I relate.

lindalou65

(372 posts)
24. I'm an agnostic married to an atheist
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:47 PM
6 min ago

and have been since we were late teens. Haven't changed our minds yet. We're in our later 70's now.

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