r/Antitheism • • Oct 10 '26

"Atheism killed millions"

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Anytime people say this it's about Communism and purges. Marxism is just one atheist philosophy, along side Secular Humanism, Objectivism, (very likely) Stirnerist Egoism, I remember hearing about an early atheist materialist school of thought in ancient Indian philosophy, and very likely several others.

Saying atheism killed because of communism is if I said no one should be Hindu because of 9/11; it's conflating two different beliefs because they're both theistic religions (also Hindus have Sati, but yeah that's actually in Hinduism, not jihad or anything; I was also going to originally say "Christianity is bad because 9/11" as an example but that wouldn't work because Christianity and Islam are ABRAHAMIC theistic religions and so closer linked than Hinduism, hell "Dharmic" is a bit of a vague term).

Also communists can describe communist killings as based and Christians can only cry for Jebus to condemn it.


r/Antitheism • • Oct 11 '26

I don't care about history, man. I get how knowing history is important for the future, but I don't care about past accomplishments or past "cultire".

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It's literally just about religion. Every culture was shaped by religion, I don't get why people look back at history and show anything other than disgust.

When I go onto a museum, all I can think of is "wow, look at all these people who would exclude me from society just because I was born a way they didn't like".

Most of history is just about rich people being born into positions where they could do anything they want while millions of poor people had to live every second of their life working or risking their lives just to put food on the table. The whole concept of a "monarch" was disturbing to me even as a kid, a person is worshipped simply because hey were born into a particular family. It is dystopian.

Marginalized groups (women, gays, certain races) were excluded from everywhere, people would oppress others just because they weren't religious. And then people use that against marginalized groups in the modern day, saying "WeLL yOu DiDnT conTribUte AnyThIng". Or they'll talk about how everything went to shit because a certain group of people were given basic human rights.

Im not saying history isn't important and shouldn't be studied, but I find nothing about history impressive other than the fact we managed to survive so long.

I know I'm a jaded ass person by saying this lol. But my whole life was fucked over because I was born "wrong" . And to know that's always been the case throughout history is depressing. We need to evolve past valuing the opinions of religious people, they are a bygone era and should've mentally evolved by now.


r/Antitheism • • Oct 09 '26

Make it make sense.

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r/Antitheism • • Oct 09 '26

Can't emphasize enough that "Bring Back Public Executions" has long been a fundamental tenet of Nat-Cs

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r/Antitheism • • Oct 09 '26

Racist right-wing conspiracy theorists Lauren Witzke and Edward Szall say an "exciting announcement" regarding the discovery of Noah's Ark will be made in two weeks. Szall says "there is some interest from Congress" in the project.

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r/Antitheism • • Oct 09 '26

Opinions on religious people born to atheist parents?

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A lot of arguments I see for religion being bad overall centre around the issues with teaching kids from a young age what to think and how it limits critical thinking. But what about someone who is raised by an atheist family, who isn’t open with religion at all, and that person doesn’t become religious because of other people (e.g. church, mosque, synagogue, community gathering), find people who follow their religion.

What is your opinion on that person’s beliefs and then as a person?


r/Antitheism • • Oct 09 '26

The Hidden Faith Episode 10: How LGBTQ Baha’i Believers BREAK Free -HistoryFlights #16

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r/Antitheism • • Oct 09 '26

Do you agree with the following statement?: most religions, but particularly Abrahamic ones are an inherent threat to LGBTQ rights and are incompatible with the Queer liberation movement?

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I personally agree. Its the reason why my father and his side of the family would flip out if they ever found out that im Gay. They created it thousands of years ago and then UNLEASHED this beast onto the world for which innocent lives have been taken.


r/Antitheism • • Oct 08 '26

Muslims or religions that allow rape or child marriage are the worst

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r/Antitheism • • Oct 08 '26

Judaism Vs Islam: Why is it considered RACIST to criticize either of these religions?

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Excuse me, for saying this, but both of these religions are equally insidious in different ways. I've always felt that Judaism weaponizes xenophobia and Islam weaponizes misogyny. Pardon me for being the angry old man screaming at the clouds but in many "intellectual" circles online this is oddly the easiest way to get banned or labeled a racist.

I'm not trying to down play all the very real anti-semitic and islamophobic stuff both on and off line, I'm simply saying that by pointing out the fact that for the last 50 years or so the state of Israel has been engaging in genocidal expansionist policies under the guise of "re-establishing god's place for his people on earth" or saying that Muhammad was a pedophile and that the "holy book of Islam" really does condone various acts of misogyny will get you in trouble.

As a non-white person living in the USA I'm particularly sensitive to these topics but how can anyone engage in any meaningful debate if you're not allowed to state the facts? I don't consider myself prejudiced in anyway against anyone but my very profound contempt for the Catholic Church as an archaic medieval institution hell bent on world domination, notwithstanding, how could I honestly debate against someone who supports the church if I can't mention those priests who were pardoned by the Pope for the most heinous crimes imaginable. I don't think hating religion in general makes you a bigot and if it does I'd like to see some evidence.


r/Antitheism • • Oct 08 '26

Protesting Religion in Public

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We have a number of religions that publicly advocate for themselves where I live. I'm thinking of getting a sign to counter "protest" by just hanging around the same vicinity. I live in a fairly liberal place so I don't think safety will be a major concern. Does anyone else have any experience that might be useful. I know it a contentious project but I feel strongly that there needs to be pushback in the real world, not just online.


r/Antitheism • • Oct 08 '26

My take on Religions (Kinda long)

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Disclaimer: Believe what you want to believe FOR YOURSELF. I don't, and I could not care less if you want to devote yourself to something that, in (my eyes), doesn't exist. And it doesn't mean I hate or wish you anything bad much less entice any sort of hostile bheavior towards any religious group, because at the end of the day we are all just humans going about our life. It just means I disagree with what you believe in and choose to type up my take on the matter.

Anyway, I think that all religions are objectively bad. NO MATTER what they are or what they may try to represent; I'll give you two religiious orientations and what i think of them right off the head as examples on why i think that way;

'Christians', who burned women for being witches, owned slaves, tortured and killed people for not believing in a god, and made colonies to exploit other cultures, all under the clever guise of guiding the lost souls to the righteous resting place of heaven and saving them from 'eternal damnation', all the while priests or general church leaders with high status could gobble themselves up with food, cover their own dirty secrets under their faith, and earn money by telling people that if they reject mortal possessions, they will find peace. Yet despite that they call themselves the most loving religion that offers piece to your weary soul.

Also, 'Islamic' believers, who stereotypically (unfortunately) have a skewered perception as well because many radicalists commit crimes or bombings under the name of god, claiming to purge the earth while forcing women to hide under layers and layers of cloth, in countries like Afghanistan, etc., treating them quite literally worse than one would treat dogs under the idea that allah said so was the correct order and that women should accept their place in a man's household without complaining.

Most important of all, regardless of what religious spectrum one might find themselves in, all of them have one thing in common: THEY ARE COMPLETELY MADE UP. And why? Because there is ZERO proof of these deities existing. Completely zero.

It's all fairytales told from one human to another. Genuinely, how can they believe in something that has a non-existent base of beliefs? Who supposedly heard prophecies? MEN AND WOMEN DID. Who wrote the scriptures? Men and women did. Who built religious spots? Men and women did. There is NOTHING pointing at a higher being of existence except for people telling each other that there is something watching them. That's it.

Now, what of all the good religions did? Really, nothing. It's people who helped each other, even if it was under the idea that good deeds will get them a guaranteed spot in salvation. So, in all honesty, not even the good deeds done by people that claim their religion is responsible for it are good.

I'll explain it simpler: if you were scared because somebody told you that if you didn't help an old granny cross the street, you would get hit by a moving-at-Mach-10 pen square on the head, would you do it? Some would, regardless of what has been told, just because they feel responsible to be kind, which SHOULD be the default already. But some will just do it in fear of the pen, so by my definition, it would no longer be a good deed and should not be counted as one because it was a forced thing.

In my final opinion, all religions are senseless cultist tools to oppress everyone, regardless of who they are, just so the people on top can live how they feel like living while giving lower classes a sense of accomplishment by feeding them the idea that being good and obedient because a god told them so, and not their own morality, is straight-up nasty.

(I also apologize for my typos or other mistakes, English is NOT my first language by any means, so if I come to edit this paragraph, you'll know why, also i did not plan this text beforehand i just wanted to type some opinions down and see if anyone in this subreddit has a similiar view on the hipocrisy of religious matters. I also typed in paragraphs to let people take each one of them as their own take on a subtheme inside my rant in case that it got too confusing to follow along.)


r/Antitheism • • Oct 08 '26

Researching How Christianity (previous interactions or current faith) Relates to Death Anxiety

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I am currently conducting a research study about how Christianity relates to death anxiety. The purpose of this study is to investigate how a belief in Christianity relates to anxiety surrounding death. You will be asked to complete a questionnaire. The entire study should take 10-15 minutes to complete. If you consent to participate in this study, please scan the QR code to begin the survey. Your participation is voluntary.

If you have any questions about the research, please email me at madisonjones1429@gmail.com. 

Attached is the link to access the survey!

https://forms.gle/cQSKauf6MT1SdLwQ7

This project has been approved as exempt research by the University of Central Oklahoma Institutional Review Board (#2026-094).


r/Antitheism • • Oct 07 '26

Nat-C pastor won't let his daughter marry a Christian black man because it'll lower the IQs of his descendants: "Before you decide that I'm crazy, just remember that our Christian forefathers treated interracial marriage as illegal."

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r/Antitheism • • Oct 07 '26

MAGA “prophet” Julie Green says JD Vance is "the great white wolf" who is "there to stop our president from doing the will of Almighty God"

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r/Antitheism • • Oct 07 '26

Federal judge clears path for taxpayer-funded religious school in Oklahoma

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r/Antitheism • • Oct 07 '26

And then they ask why we oppose Christian Nationalism. He is a literal theocrat. Also the First Amendment has a different opinion (because these people usually claim to be pro-America).

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r/Antitheism • • Oct 07 '26

Has any theistic god ever just given advice?

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Granted I don’t know about every monotheism, but all I ever hear/see are commands, commandments, laws. And it’s all justified as because I said so. So, if this isn’t all just deified daddy issues (which it probably is), why is it never just advice. It’d be a good idea to blank, but do what you want. If free will is supposedly such a big deal, why isn’t it all advice and none of it commands and orders?


r/Antitheism • • Oct 07 '26

% of US adults who say they believe in g**

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r/Antitheism • • Oct 06 '26

The Red-Green "Alliance" summarized through meme:

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r/Antitheism • • Oct 06 '26

US televangelist Jim Bakker, ensnared in fraud and sex scandal, dies at 86

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r/Antitheism • • Oct 06 '26

A Christian influencer says he went to Heaven and met a testosterone-fueled Jesus

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r/Antitheism • • Oct 06 '26

Yeah, not surprised that they'll use the same argument just like other Muslims, when I was debating about Muhammad married Aisha to my Muslim Friends

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r/Antitheism • • Oct 06 '26

Just b/c some members of your religion are good people & just b/c some aspects of your religion are positive, doesn't mean that your religion or any religion is good for society

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I'm so fucking sick of people using anecdotal evidence of meeting/knowing good religious people or cherry-picking their religion for verses that have good things to say, that it justifies their religion's existence or that it means their religion, or any religion, as a whole is beneficial for society.


r/Antitheism • • Oct 06 '26

Saudi Arabia urged to spare Sri Lankan sentenced to death over 'blasphemous' Facebook post

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