#atheist day

[theatheistgirl]

Atheist day.

[nocticola]

International Day of Atheists (March 23rd, 2026)

[planetofsnarfs]

Atheist Day trending on Tumblr? Nope? Ok..

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Gay Byrne: Suppose it's all true, and you walk up to the pearly gates, and you are confronted by god. What will Stephen Fry say to him, her or it?

Stephen Fry: I'd say, bone cancer in children? What's that about? How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there such misery that is not our fault. It's not right. It's utterly, utterly evil.

Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a god which is so full of injustice and pain? That's what I'd say.

Gay: And you think you're going to get in?

Stephen: No. But I wouldn't want to. I wouldn't want to get in on his terms. They're wrong.

Now, if I died and it was Pluto, Hades, and if it was the twelve Greek gods, then I would have more truck with it because the Greeks didn't pretend to not be human in their appetites, in their capriciousness, and in their unreasonableness. They didn't present themselves as being all-seeing, all-wise, all-kind, all-beneficent.

Because the god that created this universe, if it was created by god, is quite clearly a maniac... utter maniac, totally selfish. We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him? What kind of god would do that?

Yes, the world is very splendid but it also has in it insects whose whole life cycle is to burrow into the eyes of children and make them blind, they eat outwards from the eyes. Why, why did you do that to us? You could easily have made a creation in which that didn't exist. It is simply not acceptable.

So, atheism isn't not just about not believing there's a God, but on the assumption there is one, what kind of God is he? It's perfectly apparent he's monstrous, utterly monstrous and deserves no respect whatsoever. The moment you banish him your life becomes simpler, purer, cleaner, more worth living in my opinion.

[puppyluver256]

[Image Description: Two images of a feminine person sitting on a grassy hill at night. The person has light skin, short brown hair, and grey eyes. They are wearing pinkish-purple glasses, a purple shirt, a dark blue jacket with light blue accents and multicolored pins attached, blue denim capri jeans, and black Vans-style shoes with white soles. They are staring up at the sky with a smile on their face. The sky is full of billions and billions of stars. There is text on the first image, which reads as follows:

“I've heard some theists insist that atheists must believe humans are "nothing but" clumps of cells or "nothing but" atoms because we don't believe in a god, usually their specific god. And I have to ask, why is acknowledging we are cells and atoms considered a bad thing?”

“Think about it. Everything about you, from your general body structure to your concious mind, is made possible by an amazing collection of microscopic semi-organisms working together to keep you alive in the form that you take.”

“All those cells, along with everything else in the world, is made of countless atoms holding one another together with nothing more than tiny sparks of electricity.”

“Isn't that amazing? Isn't that completely badass? That we're all made up of the material ejected from an exploding star, which eventually formed into us?”

“Why does there need to be a god behind all of that for any of it to mean anything?”

The second image is the same as the first, but with no text so that the stars are unobscured. End ID.]

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So I found out March 23 was Atheist Day last year, and when I found out about it I didn't have the time to really do anything for it so I decided to do something for it this year instead. The specific theme here was inspired by a series of videos a specific christian did (which I admittedly only saw through responses by atheist Youtuber Logicked) in which the guy insisted that atheists believed we were "nothing but" clumps of cells or "nothing but" atoms, and honestly it just feels incredibly reductive for how AWESOME us being made of those things is. You don't need a god to marvel over how amazing your biological makeup is. It's amazing enough on its own without some special creator behind it all.

The stars in the background are a composite from various creative commons images of starry skies, I wish I could remember the specific sources for all of them but unfortunately I cannot.

(and yes, I am aware I spelled "conscious" wrong, I wrote this text in a sticky note and then transferred it to GIMP and neither program has spellcheck)

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[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

March 23 is Atheist Day.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

March 23 is Atheist Day.

[theatheistgirl]

Happy Atheist Day.

I guess.