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[atheismvids]

About

This blog is intended to collect and distribute content about atheism, exitors, and non-religion. We welcome submissions, and are particularly interested in minority voices. The banner image is the first picture of a DNA strand, taken in 2012 by Enzo Di Fabrizio.

I am Mod Tea. I am an atheist raised by atheists, one of whom was also raised by atheists. I was born and raised in the US, though I have lived outside the country a couple times. I like tea, fiber arts, and slash fic. My pronouns are he/him and she/her. You can ask me questions here.

I hope you enjoy your stay :)

[ur-local-murtad]

Are you an Ex-Muslim who needs asylum? Stay calm and keep reading on.

Things to have or consider before applying:

A verified contact from authentic organisation such as UNHRC who specialises in supporting asylum seekers and emergency number of your local police (in the country of seeking asylum and origin if they previously dealt with your case). Vulnerable asylum seekers may be at risk of human trafficking or being sought out by Islamist extremist groups for ransom. Make sure you have established contact with individuals who can be held to account if you go missing.

Essential documents: Your passports, travel document, birth certificate, drivers license etc. Do not leave any proof of ID to your abuser that can be used against you by Islamist groups or supporters to arrest you through obtaining warrant against you or reporting you missing at local police.

Your medical documents and prescription. If you have a physical condition or a disability, make sure you have your medical documents and prescription that can help you along the way to get help in a foreign land.

Supporting evidence for asylum application: Retain ALL evidence of any threats or physical injury you have endured as a result of leaving the Islamic faith or challenging Islamist extremism. These evidence can be photographs, audio recordings, or whatsapp messages. If you are at risk of having your smartphone or laptop taken from you, create a private Gmail address and store backup of all the evidence on a Cloud Storage. If you have a lawyer approved by reputable organisations such as the UNHRC or one within the jurisdiction of European Union, send them all evidence.

Where to apply?

Financial support during personal crisis: Among many Ex-Muslims, it is common to have financial difficulty after leaving Islam as a consequence of being ostracised by their family or community. If you are an Ex-Muslim and think that you might become homeless or don’t have a job, make sure you have sufficient savings to pay for your survival needs, such as food, essential medicines, clothing to keep you warm. Before you seek asylum, make sure you have found out charities helping refugees and asylum seekers that can help you go through tough times.

Research on the political environment of the place you're taking refuge in. If you face oppression from other factors like being queer or disabled, you may want to check what that country's policy or the citizens' views to guarantee your safety.

General

Atheist Alliance

Secular Rescue

Rainbow Railroad

UNHRC

UK

Refugee Council

Refugee Action

Netherlands

IND Netherlands

Germany

BAMF

France

GISTI

Canada

IRB Canada

Turkey

Atheist Refugees

[soup-mother]

"jesus was actually a radical Palestinian activist of colour" stop trying to sell Christianity by slapping a progressive coat of paint on it. it's still preaching even if you don't recognise that and think you're just trying to fight back against conservatives or whatever. I promise you ~global christendom~ would not be fucking redeemed if everyone just learned the *true* meaning of his message (but for real this time)

[soup-mother]

I already know who Jesus is. I don't want him. I don't care that you've reinterpreted your religion in a way that lines up with your politics, I don't follow your religion. our politics being similar does not mean i care about your religious prophet, our politics being similar does not mean you get to do #leftist proselytism.

I don't want your guy, everyone already knows about him. you're going to have to come to terms with the fact your religion is a global tool of opression and discrimination. you having decided the issue is just that people have misinterpreted a religious message is not something to make everyone elses issue.

"tell everyone about Jesus but in the *right* way this time" is not a viable strategy for anything and hasn't been for 2000 years. it's actually just proselytism. you're not a martyr for being told to keep the jesus talk to yourself in activist spaces, you're just self centred.

[connieaaa]

[atheostic]

When a Nigerian atheist criticises Islam online, he’s left facing 24 years in jail

[atheostic]

First-ever atheist billboard in Africa unveiled in Ghana with FFRF support

A groundbreaking moment for the secular community in Africa has arrived with the unveiling of the continent’s first-ever atheist billboard i

[atheismvids]

The billboard, prominently displayed in the bustling downtown business district on Cantonments Road near Osu, Accra, reads: “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone.” It affirms the presence of secular individuals in Ghana and beyond. The display is part of an initiative aimed at fostering awareness, encouraging open dialogue about secularism, and supporting the growing community of freethinkers in the region. It features a photo montage of activities that African Atheists have engaged in, even including a picture of group President Roslyn Mould being interviewed by FFRF Co-Presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor in FFRF’s studio in the United States.

FFRF continues to be fucking awesome. Solidarity with atheists worldwide!

[atheostic]

Weird questions for atheists 3/?

[atheismvids]

atheist here! i have in fact eaten frogs.

[atheismvids]

Image text:

USPS Discrimination Against Atheism?

A study by the makers of ATHEIST SHOES

We are ATHEIST SHOES – a cadre of shoemakers & artists in Berlin, Germany, who hand-make ridiculously comfortable, Bauhaus-inspired shoes, for people who don’t believe in god(s). We have lots of customers in the USA, but sometimes the shoes we send them take longer than they should to arrive, or even go missing. And, when some of our customers asked us not to use ATHEIST-branded packing tape on their shipments, we started to wonder if the delays were caused by the US Postal Service taking offence at our overt godlessness…

SO, we launched an experiment…

We sent 178 packages to 89 people, in 49 US states. Each person was sent 2 packages; one sealed with ATHEIST-branded packing tape, the other with neutral tape.

They all left Berlin on November 21st, 2012 and, in theory, the branded and un-branded packages should have travelled at exactly the same speed.*

ATHEIST-branded packages took on average 3 days longer to reach their destinations **

9 ATHEIST packages went missing, and just 1 non-branded

ATHEIST-branded packages were 10 times more likely to disappear***

In Michigan, the ATHEIST package arrived 37 days later

The results demonstrate a significant bias, in quality of shipping, against ATHEIST-branded packages…

Having run a series of control tests in Germany and Europe, which demonstrate no such bias, the problem appears to lie in the USA and is likely explained by the differential handling of packages by the employees of the US Postal Service. Interestingly, this seems to be a national problem – traditionally less religious and more liberal states also saw high levels of delay and disappearance. Sadly, many of our customers who took part in this experiment were not surprised by our findings, even though tampering with post is a Federal Offence.

EPILOGUE

We’re no longer using ATHEIST packing-tape on our shipments to the USA and delivery times are already improving – so, please order with confidence, our godless American friends!

*all packages left Berlin via Deutsch Post at the same time on 21.11.12 and were transported to the USA, where they were handed over to the care of USPS for final delivery.

**3.03 days. One sample [illegible] t-test was significant [illegible numbers]. Also [illegible], as data was clumped toards y-axis [illegible] but this was also significant [illegible numbers]

***9.96 times more likely to disappear. [illegible numbers]. [illegible] 2-sided t-test [illegible numbers] 4 participants did not get back to us with their [illegible] and so were not included in the analysis.

Mod note: the American Humanist Association experienced a similar issue with FedEx, where one of their packages was vandalized when someone wrote "God rules" and drew a cross on the box.

[atheismvids]

Image text:

USPS Discrimination Against Atheism?

A study by the makers of ATHEIST SHOES

We are ATHEIST SHOES – a cadre of shoemakers & artists in Berlin, Germany, who hand-make ridiculously comfortable, Bauhaus-inspired shoes, for people who don’t believe in god(s). We have lots of customers in the USA, but sometimes the shoes we send them take longer than they should to arrive, or even go missing. And, when some of our customers asked us not to use ATHEIST-branded packing tape on their shipments, we started to wonder if the delays were caused by the US Postal Service taking offence at our overt godlessness…

SO, we launched an experiment…

We sent 178 packages to 89 people, in 49 US states. Each person was sent 2 packages; one sealed with ATHEIST-branded packing tape, the other with neutral tape.

They all left Berlin on November 21st, 2012 and, in theory, the branded and un-branded packages should have travelled at exactly the same speed.*

ATHEIST-branded packages took on average 3 days longer to reach their destinations **

9 ATHEIST packages went missing, and just 1 non-branded

ATHEIST-branded packages were 10 times more likely to disappear***

In Michigan, the ATHEIST package arrived 37 days later

The results demonstrate a significant bias, in quality of shipping, against ATHEIST-branded packages…

Having run a series of control tests in Germany and Europe, which demonstrate no such bias, the problem appears to lie in the USA and is likely explained by the differential handling of packages by the employees of the US Postal Service. Interestingly, this seems to be a national problem – traditionally less religious and more liberal states also saw high levels of delay and disappearance. Sadly, many of our customers who took part in this experiment were not surprised by our findings, even though tampering with post is a Federal Offence.

EPILOGUE

We’re no longer using ATHEIST packing-tape on our shipments to the USA and delivery times are already improving – so, please order with confidence, our godless American friends!

*all packages left Berlin via Deutsch Post at the same time on 21.11.12 and were transported to the USA, where they were handed over to the care of USPS for final delivery.

**3.03 days. One sample [illegible] t-test was significant [illegible numbers]. Also [illegible], as data was clumped toards y-axis [illegible] but this was also significant [illegible numbers]

***9.96 times more likely to disappear. [illegible numbers]. [illegible] 2-sided t-test [illegible numbers] 4 participants did not get back to us with their [illegible] and so were not included in the analysis.

Mod note: the American Humanist Association experienced a similar issue with FedEx, where one of their packages was vandalized when someone wrote "God rules" and drew a cross on the box.

[atheostic]

Famous Atheists

Ernst Abbe (1840-1905)

Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he laid the foundation of modern optics. Abbe developed numerous optical instruments.

By a generous scheme of profit-sharing he virtually handed over his business to the workers.

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Joseph McCabe (1945). A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers. Haldeman-Julius Publications. Retrieved 7 April 2013

[sacred-secrets-deactivated20211]

Masterpost of Ex-Muslim Resources

Dare to Doubt

Free Hearts Free Minds (provides mental health support to ex muslims in muslim majority countries)

Secular Therapy

Sabatina EV (an ex-muslim organisation in Germany)

Ex Muslims of North America

The Ex-Muslim: The premier destination for Ex-Muslim commentary

Exmuslims of India (ExMIN)

Council of Ex Muslims of Britain

Committee to protect Muslims and Ex-Muslims (CPME)

Atheist Republic

Faith to Faithless

Faithless Hijabi (for ex-muslim women) 

Books

Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam - Yasmine Mohammed

Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Apostates: When Muslims Leave Islam - Simon Cottee

Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out - Ibn Warraq

Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Understanding Muhammed and Muslims - Ali Sina

Youtube Channels

Ex Muslims of North America

Mimzy Vidz

Apostate Prophet

Infidel Noodle

Hassan Radwan

Sherif Gaber

The Ex-Muslim

Exmuslim Scandinavia

Ex-Muslims of Norway

ExMuslim TV

Some info about islam, muslims, and ex-muslims

How to help ex-muslims

Misogyny in Islam

Homophobia in Islam

More Muslims are leaving Islam

Hijab is not empowering 

Forced Hijab

How to take off your hijab

Muslim beliefs

Muslim extremism

How to survive Ramadan

Tips for ex muslims on social media

How Islam views non-muslims

Iran’s secular shift

This is all I could find for now. If you know of any more resources, please let me know and I will add them to this post  

[researchgate]

Apostate prophet is dabbling in evangalism nowadays, I’d suggest

Friendly Ex-Muslim (Abdullah Sameer) and Apostate Aladdin; also, don’t forget Armin Navabi’s Secular Jihadists! Another channel is that of Harris Sultan!

[swagpaws]

quitmormon.com (a pro-bono legal team that helps people resign from the church) is fundraising to get a full-time paid lawyer and provide free mental health services to people leaving mormonism (especially LGBTQ+ people and our allies)

link to send support:

Donate to Help Quitmormon.com Expand Free Resignation Services, organized by Mark Naugle

Help Quitmormon.com Empower More People in Faith Transitions … Mark Naugle needs your support for Help Quitmormon.com Expand Free Re

[atheostic]

Weird questions for atheists (2/?)

[cultural-christianity]

To be purely secular requires practice and attention. A surprising moment like a sneeze [e.g., “Bless you!”] can demand an improvised response. Bodies and their habits can betray secular people like me who are not properly trained.

Late one evening at the same conference in Amherst, I spent a couple of hours at a bar with the conference organizers and some of the older student leaders who were also graduate students. We had drunk enough that we were in our feelings, so to speak, and we were talking about the experience of being an outsider, which all of us shared. A secular humanist conference in a suburb of Buffalo is, after all, probably not where people who grew up fitting in are likely to find themselves.

Dan, a former Christian and a leader of a secular student group in Illinois, tried to express to us how fortunate he felt to have a college degree and be in graduate school despite having grown up very poor.

He stumbled over his words on his first attempt, and then he did so again. Watching his mouth pantomime a word, I suddenly realized what Dan was avoiding: he wanted to tell us that he felt "blessed." I spoke up and said that it can be hard to find secular words for how we feel when we speak a language and live in a culture that are so thoroughly organized around Christianity. Everyone agreed. But when I suggested that this Christian saturation makes it acceptable to use Christian language sometimes, my sense was that no one else felt comfortable using the b-word.

—Joseph Blankholm, The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

The Right to Non-Christian Secularity

About ten days ago, I wrote a series of posts regarding the difficulties Jews and people of other minority faiths encounter in western society when it comes to having our holidays respected and recognized. I got a lot of feedback from Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Jains, etc. echoing my sentiments (some of which was absolutely heartbreaking), and I have additionally seen a variety of other posts on the matter that underline my point. When reading all of the notes and comments relevant to these posts, I noticed a very similar theme reappearing time after time:

“I didn’t take off for X holiday because I’m not that religious, but the scheduling was very inconvenient for my more observant friend or family member.” 

Indeed, I had previously quoted former MLB player Gabe Kapler, who once made the justification to play baseball on Yom Kippur by saying: 

“I am not really a practicing Jew. It would be selfish to be a practicing Jew on only one day.”

It would seem that many people have been led to believe that observing a Jewish or Muslim or Hindu holiday is cheating unless you are sincerely devout. 

Well, I have a special message for those people: 

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO NON-CHRISTIAN SECULAR OBSERVANCES

This is important, so I’m going to say it again: 

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO NON-CHRISTIAN SECULAR OBSERVANCES

Think of all the times you have been chided by secular Christian friends for not celebrating Christmas.

“It’s not really even a religious holiday anymore,” people will tell you. “It’s just a nice time for families to get together and celebrate.” 

Well, guess what? So is Rosh Hashanah. So is Eid. So is Diwali. 

A secular Jew might not want to go to synagogue on Rosh Hashanah, but that doesn’t mean they don’t want to fly home for Rosh Hashanah dinner to be with their family. 

A non-practicing Muslim may have lost interest in regular religious practices, but that doesn’t mean they don’t still look forward to Eid celebrations.

A lapsed Hindu can still have fond memories of celebrating Diwali as a youth, and want to continue on with their family traditions. 

There is no written rule that says only people from Christian backgrounds can be non-religious and still celebrate their cultural holidays. There is no law that says only Christmas and Easter can be boiled down to family dinners and fun festivities. 

BEING A SECULAR PERSON FROM A MINORITY FAITH DOES NOT INVALIDATE YOUR RIGHT TO YOUR OWN CULTURAL BACKGROUND. 

It doesn’t matter if you haven’t prayed in years or don’t believe in God. If you want a day off for your holiday, take it. No matter what, it’s still yours. 

[captainjonnitkessler]

Atheists don’t need a reason for why we don’t want to be called “cultural Christians” the fact that we don’t want to be called that is reason enough! When it comes to every other group on this site they are allowed to identify however they want and outsiders don’t get to define them but when it comes to atheists who are ex Christian that rules doesn’t apply for some reason!!! Fuck that!!

Anywhere outside of this site, "cultural Christian" is a *self-identifier* used by people who don't identify as Christian but still feel a connection to the Christian culture they were raised in.

And people try to justify calling individuals "cultural Christians" with "oh, well I don't mean you're ACTUALLY a Christian, I just mean you need to acknowledge that Christianity has influenced your culture and so you need to unpack some of your beliefs!"

Which is true! But it's true of EVERYONE. So if you wouldn't feel comfortable calling an American Jew or Muslim a 'cultural Christian', maybe YOU should unpack why you think atheists are uniquely vulnerable to social influence and therefore subject to being forcibly identified by a religion they've explicitly rejected.

[weirdcultstuff]

just wait for the second verse 🧍 #exevangelical #religioustrauma #singer #creepy