#atheists

[mapsontheweb]

Share who identify as atheist, agnostic, or nothing in particular in 2008 vs 2022

#maps #religiosity #us #atheists #2008 #2022

[rejectingrepublicans]

🤦🏾🤦🤦🏻

#republican assholes #maga morons #conspiracy theorists #dumb ass republicans #chemtrails #atheists #angels

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

#Atheist #Atheists #Atheism #Kevin Sorbo #Christmas #Holiday #Holidays #Happy Holidays #celebrate #gift #gifts #belief #family #friends #birth #savior #Jesus #Jesus Christ #Christian #Christians #Evangelicals #Bible #Republican #Republicans #The Mad Sonneteer #Bud Koenemund

[geezerwench]

#religion #christians #atheists #very sad

[discworldquotes]

There were such things as dwarf gods. Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, 'Oh, random fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!' or 'Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!'

Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

#Discworld #Terry Pratchett #Men at Arms #dwarf #dwarfs #religion #god #gods #atheist #atheists

[redacted-coiner]

Atheist

[PT: Atheist]

Just wanted to make a flag for those who may be Atheists! Being I’ve made a lot of other flags in the past for religions!

[ID: none yet]

[No Tag]

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#🎨 post #🎨 coining #🖌️ other #Atheist #atheists #liom #mogai #liomogai #liom term #mogai coining #liom coining #mogai term

[bear-of-mirrors]

I never want to hear another atheist get mad about being called “culturally xtian” ever again.

#richard dawkins #atheists #atheism #cultural Xtianity #cultural christianity

[graytheory]

Faith and religion are not incompatible with feminism.

Atheists, I need you to stop acting like you are superior to people with faith.

Atheist feminists? I need you to stop speaking over people of faith who are feminist. You need to stop saying things like "all modern religion is incompatible with feminism".

It honestly reeks of cultural Christianity and being an ex-Christian atheist, that you think all religions are like the one you left, and that all religions are static and misogynistic.

#cultural christianity #ex christian #feminism #atheists

[themadcapmathematician]

The heart of the issue of saying atheists are culturally christian in a way that matters tangibly more than any other belief system (even, sometimes, being actually christian), ignoring atheists that are not from christian dominate cultures or religious backgrounds, and using caricatures of atheism to represent the entire belief system has always been the insistence that atheists are the oppressors somehow, that atheists can't be one of many minority religions and belief systems that you should seek to ally with because they are higher on the oppression tree and they need to shut up and listen to you

It an emotionalization of bad experiences with atheists in the face of obvious facts, like that atheists make up around 7% of the world population, that they don't hold major political or social power in most cultures (subcultures may be a different matter, but it's perhaps worth being accurate about when a subculture is even atheist-dominate in the first place), that they are often treated with hostility and aggression by dominate religions and belief systems, that they can come from many cultures and religious backgrounds and hold many different ethical and political beliefs

"Atheists are our oppressors" and "Atheists are prone to siding with our oppressors" has no tangible basis in reality and is not productive to dismantling oppression against religious minorities, but it's certainly popular, probably because being part of a minority belief system makes you very easy to smear and less likely to be in a position to retaliate

#atheisim #atheists #respectability politics #madcap rants #religion

[slack-wise]

#atheists #atheism #fish #animals #funny #lol #memes

[politicalantibody]

Atheists and agnostics are more likely to be civically engaged, whereas the unaffiliated religious people are less likely to vote.

"We know politically for example," Smith says, "that religious Nones are very distinctive. They are among the most strongly and consistently liberal and Democratic constituencies in the United States."

AND we finally outnumber the evangelicals and the Catholics!

Read the article, it contains a number of interesting nuggets.

#atheists #agnostics #unaffiliated religious

[mapsontheweb]

Faithlessness in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧

by britainmaps_

#maps #britainmaps_ #igsourced #uk #atheists

[alpaca-clouds]

I am so annoyed with atheists by now

I really am so annoyed with atheists right now. I do still have atheist friends. Like, not the "vaguely agnostic, but does not believe in the ONE GOD" kind of atheist. But the "starts screaming as soon as someone mentions religion". And... I just find it so childish?

I was so big into the entire new atheism thing between about 2010 and 2016. And even after that I got into arguments with religious people pretty regularly. Heck, I would even say I stand with some of the stuff I said back then. If you back the Catholic church that is an organisation that not only tries to keep their own child molestors from justice, but also do internationally so much harm to queer people and other minorities (like some disabled people). But... The problem in there is the organisation, not the believe. So, you know, these days I would kindly ask people to consider their membership in the church, not their believe. Especially in countries like Germany, where members of churches will help to finance the institution by the simple fact of being part of the church. (Churches in Germany are allowed to collect taxes.)

I personally was so angry about religion, because I had so much religious trauma. Because my very, very Catholic mother abused me in the name of her religion. And so many people in the church knew. And they just looked on. So I was angry. I was really angry about it. But nowadays I realize that just projecting that anger and hurt onto other religious people, that had nothing to do with it.

The thing with those atheist friends I have is, though, that they do not have religious trauma. In fact two of them were not even baptized or forced into a religion. They never had a religion. But still, they are so angry about it. And I... don't get it.

I mostly really got to be alright about religion because of Castlevania. That sounds funny, right? But really, empathizing with Isaac and his character arc helped me to... actually understand, why religion is important to so many people. From that I went into looking into how religion and race intersect. And from there more into the science of religion. I made religious friends, admittedly, yes, mostly Muslims.

My own religious believes by now are more going into the direction of spiritualism. But I do not really believe in the Abrahamitic "ONE GOD". Still, I have by now befriended an Imam. And I honestly have great philosophical conversations with him.

Still, the aforementioned atheistic friends... They have by now accused me several times of having converted to Islam because of it. Because they can just not fathom that I just talk to religious people about religion.

And they will just not... talk with religious people. Because religious people, according to them, are basically evil. And when I tell them, that with that they are about as prejudiced as they accuse religious people of being, they will just get angrier.

I will be frank... It is just exhausting.

Like, just let religious people, who do not use their religion as an excuse to be hateful towards minorities, do their stuff. They do not harm you. And you are not "more intelligent" and "more enlightened" than religious people, because you do not believe in any god.

Especially as a lot of atheists still believe in all kinds of unscientific shit.

Just chill, folks. Just chill.

#atheism #atheists #religion #christianity #islam #spiritualism #spirituality #rant

[sophieinwonderland]

Results from a poll of the religion of r/tulpas

I thought it worth noting that while Buddhists make up a small overall number, the number of Buddhists is disproportionately high, at nearly 5% of the population of the subreddit.

This is on a website which draws most of its traffic from countries where Buddhism only makes up 1% of the population or less. (USA, UK and Canada being the top 3.)

Thought this was relevant to current syscourse-y discussions.

Now for something not relevant at all but that I found interesting. In the "other" category, there was a surprising standout in the comments.

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It makes sense in hindsight, but I have to say that I'm surprised by those results!

Anyway, Hail Satan! 😈

(We're just atheists ourselves but are supportive of all religions, including Satanism!)

#syscourse #tulpa #tulpamancy #pro tulpa #satanism #religion #atheism #satanists #satan #buddhism #buddhists #religions #endogenic #pro endo #pro endogenic #plural #plurality #atheists #atheist #actually a system

[thehalfwaypost]

#god #human #religion #atheists #atheism

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

"Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists - like the painting experts hated the painter - hate God because He does exist." - Ray Comfort

#Atheists #atheism #hatred #God #existence #Ray Comfort #Christian Quotes