#athiest

[anonymousanomalyinthebuilding]

[whereserpentswalk]

The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

[this-is-anti-religion]

Atheists thinking it's okay to disrespect Christianity (and other religions but mostly Christianity) just because they're Atheist

This is anti-religion.

Shoutout to all my chill atheists! 💘

I understand having church hurt but I'm going to say something that is a hot take but really shouldn't be: if you are traumatized by a religion, it is YOUR responsibility to process that trauma and overcome it so that you don't become a hateful, spiteful, bitter bitch.

And I'm saying that as somebody that had a bunch of church hurt and became a bitter bitch and now, 7 years of deconstruction and study of biblical theology later, have processed almost all of my religious trauma and now no longer consider myself traumatized by the church.

If your take on Christianity is "it oppresses minorities" then I'm going to assume that you haven't done any in depth study of Biblical theology beyond a surface level reading of the Bible in it's non-native language.

That's not to say that the Church hasn't committed atrocities. They absolutely have, as a pagan and an indigenous mixed person, I am ACUTELY aware of that. But what the Church has done, for centuries, is take religion and twist it into something it's not.

The Bible affirms women.

The Bible affirms queer people.

The Bible affirms BIPOC individuals.

The Bible affirms pagans and witches.

The Bible affirms poor folk and the abused.

Actually STUDY. Please I beg you, because true and honest, genuine Christianity is genuinely so fucking beautiful.

Sincerely,

A multifaith person that practices Gnosticism, folk Catholicism, and bridal mysticism.

[ozz-bear]

If you find out I’m an atheist and continue to say “god loves you” and “I’m praying for you”, I’m immediately classifying you as a passive aggressive bitch.

[internetgreatesthits]

[not-an-arborist]

Exactly.

[n0cnimura]

[miscellaneousbullshit]

Tired of tiptoeing around the subject of religion in all my classes in an effort to not offend people. Yes, I genuinely believe no one should be religious. Yes, that includes your religion. Yes, that includes spiritualism and non monotheistic religions. Yes, I genuinely believe the institutional harms of religion entirely outweigh any and all individual benefits. Yes, I think it's odd you believe in something enough to build your life around it with zero evidence that thing exists. Yes, I think it's weird to believe in any sort of god, just like I think it's weird to believe in vampires or ghosts or other made up creatures. No, I don't think religious beliefs should be an acceptable defence for bigotry of any kind, and yes I think it's weird I this is all 'unacceptable' to say in public but anyone can use *insert religion of choice* to justify casual sexism or racism or homophobia without consequences, and yes I think it's weird that I can't point out religion as the driving force behind all of these things without even 'tolerant' or 'accepting' religious people jumping down my throat screaming about how it isn't about religion when it 100% is. Yes, I am aware people are persecuted for their religious beliefs. I'm also aware they are more often than not persecuted by people of other religions, using their religion as an excuse to commit violence against anyone who doesn't share their beliefs. No, I am not naive enough to believe that a world without religion would result in a world without persecution or sexism or racism or homophobia, but I do think a world without religion would get rid of a very convenient excuse for all of those things and that we would be better off without it. Die mad about it.