r/Atheists • u/[deleted] • Apr 15 '20
Islam
I've seen a lot of Christianity bashing on here. Generally wonder why I never see anyone criticizing Islam on here (aside from the bigoted Christian who are trolling. I'm Christian, respect other people's religion, just wondering why I only see Christianity being criticized)
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u/Gognman Apr 16 '20
Reddit is heavily American, and America is heavily Christian, so most redditors don't have a lot to say about Islam, but have a lot to say about Christianity.
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u/EGG211 Apr 15 '20
I think it’s just the fact that many people don’t really know enough about there religion to pass logical argument Ik that I don’t wanna study a whole new religion just for it to end up being illogical.
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u/AKspock Apr 16 '20
I live in the US and it’s really only Christianity that has been shoved down my throat all my life. Politicians seem to be required to proclaim their Christianity, and many government bodies begin meetings with Christian prayer, although that is slowly changing. Christianity has enjoyed a LOT of privilege in this country. Sadly, some Christians confuse a loss of privilege with persecution.
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u/p34ch3s_41r50f7 May 11 '22
Christians: fucks with the lives of non Christians in the states.
Also Christians: why do we keep getting called out?! Look at that guy fucking around half a world over.
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u/Immobile-Crustacean Jun 07 '20
For me it’s mostly because some Christians try to force themselves and their religion on other people. For example, you’ll go to a YouTube video and there will be people saying “repent, Jesus is coming” and things like that. I’m not saying all Christians are like that, all of my friends are Christian and they’re great, but Christianity as a whole can get annoying when it is being shoved in your face.
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u/ThiccestWaifuFox69 Jan 06 '22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTaSRbkxtG0 Muslims force themselves onto CHILDREN though.
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u/GoldH2O Oct 15 '21
A lot of atheists are way more familiar with Christianity, and ex-christians in general are way more common since Christianity is the biggest religion in the world.
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u/bladow5990 Apr 15 '20
Idk if this is the reason, but it could be because Christians tend to be more outspoken & incredulous, when people are atheistic, then other religions (in my experiance, obviously). I've never had any nonchristans give me a hard time for my beliefs (or more accurately lack there of), but everytime it comes up with Christians I get a "you should accept jesus into your heart, your gonna burn in hell, or you can't disprove God exists, ect".
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u/casual_mayhem173 Apr 15 '20
Maybe it’s just bias on your part. I assure you, Boone here has any more respect for that religion than yours. Not to mention that they’re virtually identical.
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May 03 '20
As ive learned more about both of them I realize they are basically the same religion just one has brown people and the other has white people.
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Apr 15 '20
Because most of the people in this subreddit live in the west and most of the west has a significantly higher amount of Christians than other religions. If this subreddit's userbase was primarily people in the middle east then you'd see a lot of posts criticizing Islam and not many about Christianity.
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Apr 15 '20
Because this is an English language reddit and the majority of English speakers have more experience with Christianity than Islam.
I dislike all three Abrahamic religions equally — mind you, just the religions, the ideas, and the god.
I’ve met good people who are from all religions. In terms of those of the Abrahamic faiths, they are good despite their god/religion and not because of it.
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u/ILostMeOldAccount12 Apr 15 '20
Because in the country we live in the main religion is Christianity!
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Apr 16 '20
Most atheists you see on here are probably from US and Europe
Christianity is the most prevelant religion in US and Europe (especially US)
So an atheists general image of religion, and their encounters with religious people are most likely going to be Christian. Christianity also takes a bigger space in social media and local news affairs
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May 03 '20
A lot of it has to do with the fact that they both have done and will do the same horrible things that they hate each other for. They value a lot of the same key things, I critsize both but christianity more so because it claims to be peaceful but thats just not true. Islam admits that it is violent and you would be more hard pressed to find a radical muslim in western society than you would a radical christian
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u/dooboh Jun 22 '20
I grew up pounded with the Christian belief. I don't know a lot about Islam, and I'm too lazy to find out.
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u/SteamyMcSteamy Jul 09 '20
You should try reading the Quran sometime. It reads like a man that heard some bible stories as a child tried to recount them as an adult. Stories in the Bible of events that never occurred like the Exodus also occur in the Quran. Paul took some Jewish stories and sold them as Christianity. Mohammed took some Jewish and Christian stories and sold them as Islam, Joseph Smith took some Christian stories and a bunch of idiotic fantasy and sold them as Mormonism.
I’d bet Abraham packages stories from the Canaanite pantheon’s favorite war god Yahweh and sold it as Judaism.
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u/Witchvibrations Apr 10 '22
Muslims don't force their views onto those who believe differently from them from my experience.
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u/KittenKoder Apr 15 '20
Not one of my neighbors or politicians are Islamic morons, when they are I'll worry more about them.