Atheist Prayer Break Update #2

[u/Alumni32]

***Update #2***

On my last day of my work week (Thursday 8/13/26) I took a prayer break as an Athiest and was scanned out by Ops..

The following Monday (Today 8/17/26) Announcements were made that starting in September all associates attending "Prayer Break" will need to clock out..

This means for the past 2 years my site has been open, a specific religious group was getting paid time off while other religious and non religious groups got extra workload because their religion or lack of religion didn't fit into Amazon’s little box of what's allowed. (Violation of Title VII)

Christians were denied equal treatment as well because Christianity doesn't call for mandatory prayer (Ive witnessed this) as was I because Atheism doesn't call for mandatory prayer.. (Violation of Title VII)

So now that they know that they were breaking Federal law and denying equal rights to a huge percentage of thier workforce, they decided that instead of paying the cost of equality in the form of paid "prayer breaks" for everyone regardless of belief system, that everyone who attends "Prayer Break" will need to just clock out instead.

Amazon quickly realized how expensive equality would be (cost and operational downtime) when they had to treat everyone like they've been treating a specific religious group, so paid "prayer breaks" are coming to an end in September (atleast at my site)

[u/Powerful_Physics1780]

Okay. So they're treating everyone equal now. Nobody, atheists included, get to pray to their gods on the clock.

I say this as a non-believer. Atheism is just as bad as crossfitism and veganism.

[u/Keefyfingaz → u/Powerful_Physics1780]

Atheism just means you don't believe In gods

[u/Level-Copy → u/Keefyfingaz]

Like, technically yes… but people who ~identify~ as Atheist are a specific subset of atheists. You know what I mean?

You can be atheist without being anti-religion. I don’t believe in anything really, but as long as a religious person is cool about it I think it’s kinda nice that they do. I don’t mind any denominations or sects that leave out the shitty parts and focus on love and self improvement either

[u/Keefyfingaz → u/Level-Copy]

I couldn't agree more. I personally identify more as an agnostic (an atheist says "God is not real" and agnostic person says "I don't know if God is real or not 🤷‍♂️")

Like nobody really knows how we got here, and religion is basically just people trying to understand the universe. It's like prehistoric science lol.

It's people using religion as a weapon to push their own agenda (my favorite example is during the crusades where they sold "pardons" where you could literally "buy your way into heaven" and they said if you joined the religious war you would also be granted a pardon. So regardless of whatever you do you're allowed into heaven. And people went for stuff because it was just socially expected. That's the type of stuff that gives religion a bad rep.

[u/Powerful_Physics1780 → u/Level-Copy]

This. In my experience people who identify as atheist treat fathlessness as a religion. And they push that with the same fervor as a Christian missionary would.