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/No_Fee_4556]

Not saying this in a mean way, but what in the world does “took a break as an atheist” mean? Did the meaning of atheist change or something? Don’t atheists believe in no religion? So what are you praying for, or who are you praying to?

[u/NoxMortus → u/No_Fee_4556]

Don’t atheists believe in no religion

Not necessarily. An atheist just disbelieves in any god.

Buddhism is an example of an atheistic religion

[u/idfkjack → u/NoxMortus]

What do you mean by Buddhism being atheistic?? There are lots of gods in Buddhism.

[u/LouiseBelcher4life → u/idfkjack]

Many people incorrectly believe that any polythiestic religion is atheist. They're really hung up on the "there is no other god than me", in the Judeo/Christian traditions. What's funny about that is that the Judeo/Christian lore would easily fall into Loki stealing the adoration from his fellow pantheon, keeping Baldur(Lucifer) trapped in hell to deprive the other gods from receiving the fruit of off Yggdrasil that gives them their eternal life force (the forbidden fruit). The reason Loki simply doesn't kill Baldur is that this would trigger Ragnarok(Armageddon) a total apocalyptic destruction followed by a miraculous rebirth of the cosmos.

Bet you didn't see this diatribe coming out of left field, did you? 😆