The other day, at a work meeting, I admitted to being an atheist to colleagues I had never said that too before. In the room of 10 people, 4 of them admitted to being atheist/agnostic as well.
There are more of us than we think.
Normalize being open about non-belief.
Atheism is the rejection of religious BS. Sure, it doesn't give you anything in it's place, but it does mean you're not consuming 💩
Which is kinda a plus, ya know?
You literally can't work there unless you sign a form that states that any evidence that contradicts the bible must be wrong, regardless of how well supported it is.
I would say "Make it make sense!"
But they are so adept at mental gymnastics that they could actually talk themselves into thinking that this is totally rational.
@darwintojesus
as a former christian who was part of that toxic community, I can say that the atheist community is better in every way.
The encouragement, support, and love is on an entirely different level.
@autocorrect2_0
Most atheism is not having sufficient reason to believe the god claim, and so suspending belief until such time as sufficient evidence is presented.
I've never met an atheist who thinks they have anything close to complete knowledge or perspective.
@AbbyJohnson
The beginning of time was 13.7 billion years ago. There were no books, certainly no bibles, no marriage, no men, no women, no Earth, no physical matter yet.
1st book of the bible was written about 3400 yrs ago. Humans already existed a good 200,000 years or more by then.
@Brian_Sauve
Fathers, make THIS your job today:
Do an equal share of the house-work because your wife is not a domestic servant.
Tell your sons they are allowed to be vulnerable, they're human beings, after all.
Tell your daughters their worth is not tied to their attractiveness.
@BenZeisloft
Patriarchy is consistently being dismantled. It currently exists as an annoyance of dwindling authority, whinging about how it needs to bring down feminism, but is ultimately as impotent as the dusty old d!ckheads who continue to prop it up.
I don't have a son. But I have a nephew. And if I heard the voice of god telling me to kill him, and I truly believed it was actually the voice of god, I would tell that god to f_ck off.
Heck, I'd do that even if the child in question was a complete stranger.
Theism is the inability to understand rational, fact-based explanations for reality and therefore supplanting fanciful magical explanations instead.
Atheism is the refusal to do that because we aren't little children.
No. It has led to a greater value being put on human life, due to realizing that this one life is all we get, so we must make the most of it and not fritter it away attempting to appease a god who doesn't exist.
Has teaching people that they are merely the result of evolutionary processes led them to devalue life, viewing humans as no different from insects in the grand scheme of things?
People think if they call me a “phobe” of some type, it’ll make me cower down. Know this:
I FEAR GOD ONLY. Your little made up phobias don’t move me one bit. I’m not required to live in your land of delusion.
@KeterKiven
The show's socio-political satire is basically the same as it was in the books (which won awards and was mega popular).
I don't know where you are getting this other stuff. No one on the show is a nihilist. And while they do rag on christian hypocrisy, there's no anti-theism.
@TheMuppetPastor
It really isn't. The bodily autonomy of the fetus is not being impeded. No one is trying to take or access it's body. Just denying it from accessing the mother's without the mother's consent.
At the middle of SIN is “I”.
At the middle of PRIDE is “I”.
Many people want to do things their way, instead of God’s way.
However, at the center of most of our problems is “I”. Maybe, it’s time to stop trusting in yourself and start trusting in God.
The same crowd that is pro forced-birth, using the argument that unwanted children should just be put up for adoption, also attempting to minimize the number of good parents wanting to adopt those children is an irony that would be amusing if it wasn't so sad.
@InspiringPhilos
Just to be clear, which is the immoral thing you are objecting to here, the creation of a meme, or making the comment about needing to slaughter more people?