Common Sense Atheism

In pursuit of a blog that can provide throughful critique about religion and religious-majority nations without perpetuating misogyny, classism, racism, Islamophobia, or other ignorant prejudices justified by non-belief.

[howlonghaveyoubeenseventeen]

being on the other side of christianity I’m just like. why would you take something as beautiful as human life and ruin it by creating a higher power who hates your natural state of being and demands perfection with a set of standards that don’t mean anything. when you could just like. be kind and respectful to others. and enjoy being in your body. we never needed guilt and fearmongering.

[voluptatiscausa]

Been thinking a lot about how the central myth of my life since I was an infant was the idea that I was born fundamentally broken, dirty, and undeserving of love but an omnipotent entity in the sky was so benevolent and condescending that it loved me anyway (even though I did not deserve it) HOWEVER the only way I could be made unbroken and clean enough to someday approach this entity was by the torture and death of that entity’s inherently pure offspring

Anyway now I struggle to accept that I’m loved because I fear I am fundamentally broken and dirty inside. Probably not related tho

[noonesgaylikegatson]

I think we need to start reminding everyone that religion is explicitly a personal choice and human sexuality is a biological reality! Not enough popping of people’s bubbles going around.

[bogbodybarbie]

you don't need to forgive anyone to recover from trauma btw. anyone who suggests you do is simply suffering from christian brainrot.

[otherside-picnic]

even if God were real, it would be necessary to depose him

[otherside-picnic]

With your help, we will bring an end to the Kingdom of Heaven and enact the People's Republic of Heaven

[marbleguard]

Christians have no idea how terrifying and flat out insane they sound from the perspective of someone not raised inside religion. The amount of church signs displaying straight up bonkers detached from all reality cult language I pass every day on my commute… like to me they give off identical vibes to the schizophrenic cardboard signs held by actually mentally ill homeless people in the city. But one is treated like a legitimate and normal part of society

[gigglevoid]

[epicallyepicepicosity2]

[vicholas]

The fact that after the United States the countries with most mormons are Mexico, Brazil, Philippines, Peru and Chile makes me want to scream. Kill all missionaries now.

[vicholas]

Yeah, there are more mormons in Latin America in sheer numbers, but Oceania has bigger percentage per population. Tonga, Kiribati, both Samoas, Marshall Islands and Tahiti all have big percentages of mormon population. Kill all missionaries now.

[ymutate]

Iranian artist Nahid Zamani

[pussy-nefarious]

atheists should become more intolerant I'm fucking sick of seeing religious people shoving their delusions in politics

[merkredonn]

Not to generalise, but when I think of someone who is loving, merciful, strong, and wise, I don't think of a "he".

(This is about Abrahamic religion)

[marbleguard]

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-allow-federal-workers-promote-religion-workplaces-2025-07-28/?utm_source=reddit.com

Dystopia

[commonsenseatheism]

what the fuck

[animentality]

[unexpectedphilosophy]

I definitely think that's one way to see the film, but I think it was even more subtle than that. It isn't strictly Christianity the film was cautionary about, it was the dissolving of the cultural unique into an amicable whole. Rimmick was offering a peaceful utopian unity where everyone shared a common ideal.

In the end Sammie defeats the utopian Remmick and rejects the oppressive religion of his father to pursue a life of music. Stack and Mary also escape Remmick to live and adapt to the times as they change.

There is something of not allowing the uniqueness of one's culture to be subsumed in an oppressive whole.

[katelyn-danger]

We must do everything in our power to eradicate Mormonism.

[katelyn-danger]

I will wage a holy war in Utah the likes of which the world has never seen.

[daisy-snake]

finally, dune for women

[asneakyfox]

the reason you, a white american, believe that white americans don't have culture is the same reason fish don't believe in water

[asneakyfox]

yes i know you think it's an antiracist statement, that you're saying it's a bad thing white americans don't have culture. but what you're actually saying is that the way white americans live is simply the normal way to live and that "culture" refers only to deviations from that norm

[asneakyfox]

there's real holidays and then there's, you know, cultural holidays. there's regular foods and there's ethnic foods

[asneakyfox]

this is not (just) about "cultural christianity," an idea that gestures at a real thing but the way tumblr talks about it is mostly not useful, i'm talking about stuff much broader than that.

making yourself a ham sandwich with mayo on white bread is a cultural practice just as much as making jollof rice is a cultural practice.

[asneakyfox]

if you feel some kind of yearning as a white american to connect with your Ancestral Culture you can get really into wearing lederhosen or playing bagpipes or whatever. but you could also just learn to understand the way you are living right now as a culture and not some kind of neutral default absence of culture

[girlfishes]

What girls and women are taught about God directly sets them up for abuse from men. We were told that God is our father and is all loving, but that he punishes disobedience by sending us to be tortured forever. Furthermore, this punishment is not a contradiction, but a sign of his love for us.

When women are taught that the model for a father, god himself, is violent and vindictive, she is taught to expect that from male authorities in her life. When a husband or father hurts her, that is a sign of his love. He is only mirroring God.

When women are taught they if they don’t serve God, she will be sent to hell, that models her service to the men in her life. She must serve her husband like she serves God, and if she doesn’t she deserves what she gets, because the punishment is from her husband, her model of God.

When women are taught that even thinking ill of God is a sin, we are therefore taught that thinking of husbands, fathers, and pastors, in any negative way is a sin.

This is a psychological trap that functions to keep women in service to men. The contradiction of an all loving and violent god isn’t a mistake. It’s to teach women that violence is love.