I'm a theist, not an atheist or agnostic, but am very atheist/agnostic friendly since I understand the POV exactly.
Strange thing happened today. I was in the hospital, getting an upper GI endoscopy done for a problem I've been having. While being admitted, during the questioning sequence - where you're told that anything they may do to you might kill you, but not to hold that against them - I was asked a very strange question.
"Do you have a religious preference?"
Being used to the workplace, I was startled to even be asked such a personal question. I gave the older woman nurse/practitioner a strange look and replied honestly, "Pagan."
It was her turn to be startled and she looked at me and said "Really?"
I nodded and she said, "I don't think I've ever had anyone answer like that before."
She was being unintentionally rude, but I didn't take offense.
So then I asked why the hospital wanted to know such a thing.
The answer was, just in case something happened to me, the hospital might be able to notify or provide the appropriate clergy.
I shrugged.
Later, she got to the 'What do you do for a living?'
When I responded, she seemed relived, "Oh, that's why. Having a job like that might not make you believe in the Creation."
I didn't say I was an atheist/agnostic. I believe in a 'creation' just not a judeo/christian/islamo version.
Makes me wonder if she misunderstood what a pagan is, or if she just considered anyone who wasn't of her religious persuasion, a disbeliever, period.