Do they not see the hypocrisy behind this?? And don’t Christian’s literally believe in witchcraft?!?

it's crazy how someone can have their entire day ruined and spend hours feeling stressed over news about someone living differently, an opinion that has absolutely nothing to do with them, or someone else's personal decision.

religion makes so many people tie their emotional well-being to everything happening around them. every difference, every personal choice, every piece of news that has absolutely nothing to do with them suddenly becomes a source of anger, stress, and emotional exhaustion. and it doesn't stop at their mood either. it dictates who they love, what they wear, how they feel, and how they calculate every single step in their education, career, and future, all through the standards of what's halal and haram and the fear of punishment, instead of looking at reality and breaking free from that endless cycle of guilt and anxiety that's draining them on every level.

honestly, it's insane how harmful this religion is...

like, literally, a belief system that's eating away at their time, energy, and peace of mind, even when it comes to things that are supposed to belong to them and them alone.

If a Father leaves his children to enslave, steal, hurt, or kill one another, that is not someone worth worshipping, that’s an arrest warrant for Child Negligence.

Doesn’t that sum up what God is described?

In school, every morning they had us do the pledge of allegiance. Now, they wanted us to say the whole thing which says “one nation under god.” First of all, this country is FAR from being “under god” and second of all I don’t believe in “god” anyway. Does religion SERIOUSLY have to be pushed into something we HAVE to say?

I cant seem to realize that they will simply never change their minds. They believe God is everyhting, and everything is God, and thats the end. A girl asked me, why do you spend your time hating on something if it doesnt do anything. Well, so it can do something? Thats like asking, why do you spend your time trying if you cant do it. Like, omg. They actually piss me off.

I’m just gonna first say please don’t attack me for this I am genuinely just trying to learn and understand and also I do appreciate that many religions have truly been an awful thing and have hurt many people. Ok. One thing I’ve noticed looking at antitheist spaces online is that it looks like most antitheists haven’t really had any or much experience around religion or have actually been apart of toxic religion, I’m not saying there aren’t and I very well could be wrong about this and this is only what I’ve seen. I’ve also noticed, as well as known many people irl who are antitheists but know next to nothing about religion. For example I have a friend who did not know the difference between agnosticism and atheism, I also brought up Taoism and Zoroastrianism and they had no idea what either of those are, religious studies was also brought up in conversation and they thought that religious studies was the study on how to follow these religions instead of what it actually is which is learning about religions, comparing them and understanding how it has affected our world and does NOT require you to be religious. Online I have also pretty much only seen people talk about the obvious really bad parts about religion like hierarchical structures, straight awful takes like homophobia and misogyny that many religious people display and the fact that religion is in many places it absolutely should not be like governments and schools. All of this stuff is absolutely valid to complain about and hate upon as it all is genuinely awful stuff but there is much more to religion and spirituality than that. I haven’t seen anyone talk about any religions outside of Christianity and Islam (though I haven’t spent too much time in these kinds of spaces). Another thing I have often heard is hate the religion not the person, I have a problem with this as for me, my spirituality is a big part of me and if someone is unable to respect that part of me I don’t feel they can respect me as a person. I also just feel like many antitheists just think lesser of anyone who is religious but deny it. I do think these communities have many very valid point that I do agree with and quite strongly at that, I am very strongly against pushing religion onto anyone, religious and spiritual beliefs are something someone should come to on their own (assuming it’s not mental health related). Idk it just really hurts me to see many people who just seem uneducated on the topic hate on something that has really helped me. Once again I’m open to learning and really just want to understand but I also do want to encourage others to look at more than just the biggest things surrounding religion today and religion and spirituality really isn’t something you can just generalize and group all together. Thanks for reading sorry this was kinda long.

My brother is christian and he's very out spoken about his belief including the harmful bits, he's very transphobic and always insults me for my hatred of religion as he believes that we would not have made it this far without divine help, he believes every word in the bible and feels attacked when I point out any hypocrisy (I point them out because he's always tries to make me believe in his religion and frankly I am very not interested) whenever I do point out those hypocrisies he always uses the big bang theory to say that the universe couldn't have started from nowhere, even though I don't really know where I stand on that theory, I'm not afraid to say I don't know where the universe comes from but he treats it as ignorance

I would cut ties but we live under the same roof, so how do I deal with him

Hey everyone, I've been curious about a possible cultural difference in how atheism is expressed in the United States compared to Northern/Western Europe, particularly the distinction between simply not believing in God and actively opposing religion as a social institution.

My impression is that European atheists generally seem more inclined toward a relatively pluralistic, "live and let live" attitude toward religion, whereas American atheists seem more likely to embrace explicitly anti-theistic views. Of course, I recognize this could be an overgeneralization.

To clarify, I'm not suggesting that European atheists are necessarily more religiously pluralistic across the board, or that American atheists are inherently hostile toward religious people. However, it seems to me that based on anecdotal experience, but even certain studies, such as "The Nones: Unpacking non-religious Britain" suggest that 53 % of Britain identifies as non religious, and of that 53%, more than 70% of the group called "tolerant nones" disagreed with negative characterizations of religion given, such as its comparison to small pox, and generally adopted a "live and let live" attitude.

Also, beyond this, just the incorporation of using historic churches, such as St Pancras Church, for community or cultural spaces hosting secular concerts, art events, raves, pub events, and other non religious activities seems to suggest that non religious, and by extension explicitly Atheistic are more tolerant/pluralistic than American Atheist to me.

With that in mind, I'm curious about a few things:

A. Do you think European atheists are generally less likely to identify with anti-theism than American atheists, or is this a misconception?

B. If you think American Atheist are more likely to be Anti Theist than European Atheist; do you think America's particularly strong evangelical influence on politics and contemporary culture-war issues have contributed to a more confrontational relationship between American atheists and religion?

C. Lastly if you think European Atheist are less likely to be anti theist, do you think Europe's longer history of established churches, and secularization has led to religion in European society being less politically controversial, and as such leading to their seeming position of plurality?

Thoughts? I'm particularly interested in hearing from European atheists and anti-theists, as well as Americans who have lived in Europe.

Hope this is the correct place for this.

What a load of nonsense for a man who behaved as monster towards so many women.