Are most english professors Atheist or Existential?

i too found that 99% of my professors were atheists or non-religious. i think it has to do with the more educate you are, the less likely you are to have faith. now, i will get attacked for saying it. there are exceptions to every rule, BUT people that are in a profession where questioning (like my history professors) is mandatory, are less likely to follow blindly along. and yes, i'm an atheist. i lack what religious people have, faith, and i'm okay with that.

Hi Amanda, As expected this originated from the greeks. The term atheism originated as a pejorative epithet applied to any person or belief in conflict with established religion. With the spread of freethought, scientific skepticism, and criticism of religion, the term began to gather a more specific meaning and has been increasingly used as a self-description by atheists. Existential Humanism is a concept that can be understood in several different ways. Sartre said "Existentialism is a humanism" because it expresses the power of human beings to make freely-willed choices, independent of the influence of religion or society. Kierkegaard suggested that the best use of our capacity for making choices is to freely choose to live a fully human life that incorporates traditional human structures such as marriage. Camus, in his book The Plague, suggests that some of us may choose to be heroic, even knowing that it will bring us neither reward nor salvation, and Simone de Beauvoir, in her book The Ethics of Ambiguity, argues that embracing our own personal freedom requires us to fight for the freedoms of all humanity

Well, I'm not a professor yet. I'm still finishing my masters. My bachelors degree though is in English and I'm Pagan. I did however have one professor I remember "fondly" who was a very conservative Christian and gave me an F- in her class. All because I wrote about Dracula in a manner that she didn't like. (I suppose going too Fruedian didn't help either). She was the type that believed "This is what the author meant" and if you said something contrary she marked you down.