#atheists

#Atheists vs. The #Bible | 10 Minute Showdown!

This video dives into the shocking truth about the Bible’s #ethical failures, the role of #science in shaping rational #morality, and why #atheistic societies are thriving examples of #compassion and #justice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMhru6_3ufU

A reminder for my fellow #Atheists during all the Pope stuff:

This is how we should be responding/reacting

Arden Hart confronting TRANSPHOBIA in the Secular Movement at the American Atheist National Convention last week in Minneapolis!
#Trans #TransRights #TERF #UK #US #Culture #Politics #Humanism #NewSkeptics #Atheists #Rationality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxOAh20qo84

On "real Christians."

This is a lightly edited version of a post I first made several years ago on Facebook. Sadly, it never seems to stop being relevant.

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Every time I hear #Christians saying "they're not real Christians" or "this isn't real #Christianity," about other Christians doing something that brings discredit on the ##religion, my skin crawls.

Because if they're not Christians ... well, neither was Constantine. Neither were the generations of #monarchs who followed, invoking the divine right of kings. Neither were the #popes and #bishops and #priests—and note that I'm not just talking about #Catholics here—who almost universally supported and legitimized the idea that #God had put our leaders in place, and to oppose them was #blasphemy.

Neither were the #Crusaders, the #Inquisitors, the #witch-burners. Neither were the soldiers who fought generations of #religious #wars within #Christendom, including the Thirty Years' War that wrought devastation equal to both World Wars. Neither for that matter were the politicians who gave us what we *call* the First World War, in which most of the major combatants on both sides proudly claimed the Christian label, and in several cases were still official theocracies.

Neither were the Christians who rounded up their #Jewish neighbors in the Second for delivery to the camps—and if you claim that was the work of a #neopagan cult that maybe a few thousand people total ever took seriously, I'll laugh in your face before cutting you out of my life. (But I'll remember who and what you are, believe me.) Neither were the people who used Christianity to justify #conquest and #slavery and #genocide and #segregation, for centuries, and in many cases still do.

In short, if you say these people aren't Christians, you're saying most Christians throughout the *entire history of the religion* weren't Christians. You can die on that hill if you really want to. But you'll die alone, and most likely at the hands of your fellow believers.

Christians are, as a rule, no worse than other people. But you're no better, either. Do you *want* to be better? Great, that's what everyone else wants too.

So prove it. Stop making excuses. Own these people, and *then* confront them. Admit that they're yours, and then expunge them. Scourge the heretics with fire and sword, and send them wailing into the outer darkness tearing their hair and gnashing their teeth. Cast them into the lake of fire.

If you do this, if you have first the moral and then the physical courage to face this monstrosity in your midst unflinchingly and with full knowledge of what it is, then you'll have plenty of help. #Jews and #Muslims and #Hindus and #Wiccans and #atheists and all the rest won't just cheer you on. We'll be right there by your side.

And while there are in the US still more Christians than all of us put together, there aren't more of *this kind* of Christian than all decent human beings put together. We can't fight them alone. Neither can you. Together we can—as long as you're honest about what that means.

If you don't? We'll be right back to #Torquemada, with a high-tech gloss. You might live a little longer than the rest of us, but not by much, and you'll go to the rack and the stake and the oven with the words of your own holy writ shouted in your ears.

Those are the only two options. Your choice.

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Addendum:

I have a great many friends who grew up Christian, and left the religion at some point. Despite having made the choice to walk away from their childhood faith, they often feel the reflexive need to defend the people they were, and in most cases their families still are.

Those who are still Christians, of whom I trust I also have a fair number left, may feel the same impulse—although interestingly, it seems to me they're less reflexive on the whole than the former believers.

We're all made of our #history. The people we were are still the people we are, in some corner of our brains. And there are complexities about being on the inside of any group that outsiders can never quite grasp. It's similar to the way I am about the #military, which is practically a religion in its own right.

Okay. Stipulated, as lawyers say on TV and maybe in real life too. I get it. Now please get this:

Unless you *grew up* as a member of a religious minority, you will most likely never understand, on a gut level, the terror the majority religion inflicts by its very existence.

This isn't unique to Christianity, to be clear. Every majority religion, in every time and place, has unconsciously (and often consciously as well, to be sure) been casually brutal to infidels and heretics. Nature of the beast. But here in the US, that beast invariably carries a cross, so there's the focus of my attention.

You don't have to understand it. Just accept that it exists, and it leaves scars. I can live with those scars, and so can nearly everyone else who bears them. That *stigma*, if you will.

But if you cut us, we still bleed. We'll heal from those wounds too, and add new scars to the old. Long after the bleeding stops, we'll remember who gave them to us.

Here I stand; I can do no other. How about you?

#Theists Say Stupid Things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmH43i7-JhE

#Believers do say some silly things to try and convince #atheists that they're wrong. From atheists not being able to prove that #god exists being the reason they're #atheist, to woodpeckers shock absorbers... there's a lot of stupid things said in this 'theists say stupid things'... which might make some atheists angry, apparently...

Why #Atheists Are Mean #Hypocrites ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVdHIWWqNpc

It is nice to see secular groups speaking out in support of LGBTQ+ people.

#LGBTQ #secular #atheists #CivilRights

https://aeu.org/2025/03/aeu-lgbtq-rights-endorsement-2025/

@separationofchurchandstate

#separationofchurchandstate #separation #secularism #secular #questioneverything #noreligions #noreligion #humanist #churchstate #churchandstate #allreligions #agnostic #church #religion #religious #atheists #atheist #usa #reminder #this

"You're An #Atheist Because You Hate #God"

Sometimes it takes #theists a LONG time to explain why #atheists hate a god... and sometimes, they never even get to the point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn247C2vahs

#atheism #sundayschool #religion #war

'The clear winner here? It’s the #atheists'
https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/which-religious-traditions-are-the

Why #Atheists Love #Jainism: A #Religion Without a #God?

#atheist #mindshift #atheism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeOb_-XrZPs

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Hypocrisy is the most notable characteristic of the Right these days.
On Monday, a twice-impeached, degenerate convicted felon, and serial liar will place his hand on a Bible and utter an oath of which every word will be a lie.
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#USPolitics #Inauguration #InaugurationSurvivalKit #Hypocrisy #TrumpSupporters #Atheists #TuckersBalls

"Do I want to hang out with #atheists any more?"

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/28/do-i-want-to-hang-out-with-atheists-any-more/
#PZmyers #atheism #atheist #conference

#nonChristians #Agnostics #Atheists #Jews #Messiah #ChristJesus #JesusChrist #Jesus #TheGoodNews #TheGospel #GodsKingdom #Bible

https://www.heartlight.org/unstoppable/1231.html

#BodyOfChrist #nonChristians #Agnostics #Atheists #Bible

Historically, it's well documented that a humble man named #Jesus once walked the earth. Many regarded him as influential; a profound teacher/great prophet.

even TODAY ~ people theover, acknowledge/celebrate the #Christmas holiday ~ some are #Christians & some are not. Whether/not U meet w/loved ones on this special day/have faith in Jesus as the son of God: the holy scriptures identify him as the savior of the& ONLY way to FatherGod.

@DemocracyMattersALot

#Atheists are laughed at in our society until the Theocratic Oligarchy takes control of the US on January 20, 2025.

I hope the religious people of this country understand, if you are not the "Primary #Christian" type, they will come after you.

Hey @thetechtutor
you've been a good boy and will receive the black #kapo award for reporting me, but my #Fediverse #instance isn't Mastodon.social for #Suckaberg reasons. I known this isn't about #StarWars, but thought you love #Mastodon for diversity reasons. Obviously, one of us is wrong
https://www.technologytalk.net/p/episode-96-what-is-the-fediverse

Since you didn't reply, I have to state the obvious: the toot is critical about the nation in question and it's crimes of #genocide, NOT #religion. After you intentional mixed up #antiZionism with #antiJudaism, I have to call you out on how dangerous and bad it is.

Doing so you are extending religious protection of all #Jews to #zionistic #warcriminals and #fundaMENTAL #terrorists like #irgun #jdl & #iOf aka #idf. This alone tells me a lot about a lack of #ethics, but you ignored that #antisemitism accusations like yours are endangering real Jews over the #crimesAgainstHumanity perpetrated by a few #ashkeNAZI #zioNAZI #atheists

Please stop! Don't associate with those #fascists! Don't risk the life of real Jews worldwide over that #racist #chosenpeople #ubermenschen #ideology of a #nation @israel

TY for consideration

@bdsmovement #FreeFree @palestine

I do not care for the concept of #gender.

Transcend the concept of gender - Like #atheists have transcended the concept of #religion - it simply isn’t needed.

All gender is is one more way for society to hook into your identity and control you. Break your shackles.

Treat people like people, regardless of their reproductive bits.

#agender #leftist #progressive #politics #atheism #atheist

@EndIsraeliApartheid #Israel has no #right; #Israel is guilty of #genocide; #Israel wants all #palestinians #eradicated. And we #westerners, #friends of #Israels #sponsor #USA let it all happen.. All of us: #christians, #muslims, #atheists. We keep buying #Israeli #science, #spyware, # fruits. STOP IT!!!!

P3

There were thousands of them. They were full of activities. Busy, all busy- mainly in persecuting each other. Satan remarked-after examining one of them through a powerful microscope: "This large beast is killing weaker animals…

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What a great read!! Highly recommended for #atheists and #agnostics or anyone tired of modern #religion.