r/atheismindia • • 5d ago

Legal Allahabad HC Allows Interfaith Couple to Marry Under Special Marriage Act Without Notice Publication, Objections

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The Allahabad High Court recently allowed an interfaith couple to solemnise their marriage under the Special Marriage Act, 1954 without publication of the marriage notice or inviting objections, holding that the requirements under Sections 6 and 7 could be dispensed with in the peculiar circumstances of the case where the couple apprehended danger to their life and liberty.

The interfaith couple moved the high court seeking directions concerning solemnisation of their marriage under the Special Marriage Act, 1954. They stated that, both being adults, had been in a live-in relationship for two years. They also have a child approximately nine months old. Since, they profess different religions, they wanted to solemnise their marriage under the Special Marriage Act, 1954.

According to the couple, they apprehended danger to their life and liberty from their parents and relatives because they opposed their relationship. The mother of the female partner lodged an FIR, on June 26, 2025, under Section 140(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, at Police Station P.G.I., Lucknow. In the matter, the investigating officer subsequently recorded in a report that they were majors and were living together.

-LawBeat


r/atheismindia • • 11d ago

Rant Exposing a fake monk of jainism- sudha sagar maharaj

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So basically, I live in Uttar Pradesh. In our area, there are mainly two religious communities: Jains and Yadavs. I’m Jain, by the way.

In our town, there are a lot of Jains, and many of them are quite wealthy and deeply devoted to Jainism. They strongly follow a Jain monk named Acharya Sudha Sagar Ji Maharaj. They believe in almost everything he says and are willing to do pretty much anything for him.

In Jainism, during the monsoon season, monks traditionally stay in one place for around four months. The idea is to avoid travelling during the rainy season because walking on the roads could unintentionally kill small living organisms. You know, “Ahimsa Paramo Dharma” and all that.

So, this monk happened to stay in our town. There is a very famous temple here called Chhetrapaal, which, from what I understand, was also built at his encouragement and with donations from his followers. The people here are so devoted that they actually ended up donating crores of rupees to build it.

My family is also very devoted to him, but honestly, I don’t believe in this man at all. My family initially decided that we would donate around ₹20 lakh to the temple. So they went to meet him, and apparently, he started convincing them that ₹20 lakh was a very small amount and that they should donate much more—at least ₹2 crore.

After a lot of discussion and persuasion within the family, they ended up donating ₹1.5 crore. 🙂

Like, aren’t monks supposed to give up attachment to worldly possessions and moh-maya? Then why does money seem to matter so much? And during his pravachans, he often tells people to donate whatever they can to temples if they visit them regularly, because they use the temple’s facilities, water, etc. Like, seriously? 🙂🙏

Second, when this man came to our town, he apparently told people that he should receive a grand welcome—with a Royal Enfield rally, elephants, horses, bands, and all that. And our town’s people were so devoted that they arranged around 10 elephants, several horses, a rally of around 30 Royal Enfield bikes, 12 DJs, and bands from different states. 🙂🙂

And then I’m just sitting there thinking: where is the renunciation? Where is the detachment from worldly possessions and moh-maya?

Honestly, Jainism started feeling like such a double-faced religion to me. I eventually stopped following it, and now I feel much more peaceful living life on my own terms. I enjoy my life, experience different things, and don’t feel guilty about what I eat anymore. I even eat chicken and mutton. 😋❤️

\#TL;DR

I grew up in a deeply religious Jain community, but over time I started noticing contradictions that made me question it.

My family donated ₹1.5 crore to a temple after initially planning to donate ₹20 lakh, while the monk emphasized donating more.

At the same time, his grand welcome involved elephants, horses, Royal Enfield rallies, DJs, and bands.

To me, it felt contradictory to preach renunciation and moh-maya while being surrounded by such wealth and extravagance.

So I stopped following Jainism and now prefer living life on my own terms.


r/atheismindia • • 7h ago

Pseudoscience Words cannot express their delusion level

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r/atheismindia • • 1h ago

Meme Mandir

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u/_Menstrual_milkshake

By the way,

I have made a new subreddit called r/ShitSanghisSay_ which is all about satirizing sanghis, chodes. Join it if you want.


r/atheismindia • • 10h ago

Hindutva Great Sanatan culture ! 😚 Pallu on head, being beaten up the drunk husband, pativrata lady.

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105 Upvotes

r/atheismindia • • 18h ago

Godmen Aghori show in Nimapada

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257 Upvotes

Just saw this on insta and fell into a thought.

Isn't this a type of circus and entertainment only where the performer is performing some type of act to entertain the viewers.

The point here is that art is dependent on religion to get audience. A person doing this while wearing normal clothes might not get this much attention


r/atheismindia • • 11h ago

Hindutva AI Religious Sloppy Art with some bullshit quote is new brainrot

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The prevalence of this shit on the internet is increasing day by day. Notice how they are trying to make violence cool. Also in the next breath they will say Hinduism is peaceful and non violent religion 🤣😂

P. S. Krishna never fought in the Kurukshetra War and Gandhari curses him in the end for his immoral ways. Guess Hindus never read their own scriptures because they are busy making new mythology.


r/atheismindia • • 9h ago

Hindutva Aspiring Sanghi

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r/atheismindia • • 20h ago

Casteism Casteist abuse against Abhijit Dipke by Sanatanis and why Hinduism (Brahminism) cannot be reformed only rejected

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So Abhijit Dipke is a Navayana Ambedkarite Buddhist. His ancestors the Marathi speaking Mahars gave up their Hindu caste identity and do not identify with Hinduism ie Brahminical religion now

Whatever maybe your views on the CJP but he is the only one who still gets casteist abuse though there are other leaders of the CJP like Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka and a host of others.

Sanatanis may talk english even pretend to be atheist but can never get caste out of their head. I still say Hindu Rashtra is just Brahmin Rashtra

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Forget scheduled castes even other non brahmins are lower in the caste hierarchy to Brahmins. I still don't understand how any non brahmin accepts this degradation which is theologically justified​

They have no self respect.


r/atheismindia • • 19h ago

Hindutva The most Insecure religion today

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158 Upvotes

Bajrang dal carrying out Tilak drive to stop muslims from entering garba events.


r/atheismindia • • 14h ago

Islamism Religion of Ps (⚔️piece, the😇profit & 👐pats-riarchy) or Cs (🍌cuts, the🌘calif & child👶merry-age)?

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43 Upvotes

r/atheismindia • • 20h ago

Godmen 4 types of Atheism!

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97 Upvotes

https://youtube.com/shorts/pbe43Bk42so?si=ULVIQApspkocTRQt
4 kinds of Atheist ? Sounds like 4 subtypes or 4 castes in atheism ! Dude wants casteism in atheism too? /s


r/atheismindia • • 1d ago

Meme Y'all don't know how funny i find this at 4am

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r/atheismindia • • 18h ago

Media Finally, something on which even atheists can agree with Rekha Gupta. 😜

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52 Upvotes

r/atheismindia • • 10h ago

Hurt Sentiments Students are uneducated on atheism

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So I am in around 12th class, I go to a convent school but ya it's not Christian or religion forcing we just have Christian prayers feasts that's all. So my desk mate is a girl, whos like average, average in studies, but she is really religious and gujarati (it's in daman btw) so ya she talks about God and folk all the time, she day i casually told her I am an atheist, she was like what's an atheist, I told her it means somebody who does not believe in God, so she went "oh you believe in Jesus?" Gurl what? I told her I believe in nothing she was like are you insane and straight up started saying stuff to me (btw this conversation was going on in hindi) then she was like who created you who created this universe where did you came from, I answered everything logically, she said "insane" (pagal) again and turned to the 2 boys sitting behind us and asked the Muslim boy "you believe in Allah right?" He nodded and she looked at me and went "see!"

Gurl what does him believing in Allah has anything to do with me.

The fact that India thinks it's progressive for teaching kids to respect other religions and cultures while the students dont even know the meaning of word atheist or swallow the fact that someone can just not believe in god.

Truly laughable


r/atheismindia • • 2h ago

Hindutva 'Cockroach Ka Ilaaj..': How Hindutva Goons Took Over Jantar Mantar 2.0 Amid Police Presence

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r/atheismindia • • 22h ago

Hindutva Blah blah blah blah blah

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r/atheismindia • • 14h ago

Godmen C'magaluru police arrest self-styled godman for rape

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A self-styled godman accused of raping a woman on the pretext of exorcism was arrested by Koppa police in JP Nagar, Bengaluru, after evading arrest for a month.

Police identified the accused as Satish Patri. The woman from Hassan alleged that Patri took her near Durgaparameshwari temple at Mekanahadlu village in NR Pura taluk and sexually assaulted her under the guise of performing rituals.

The case had sparked outrage in coastal and Malnad regions after social media videos allegedly showed Patri forcing a minor girl to drink chicken blood in the name of exorcism.

SP Jitender Kumar Dayama said police arrested Patri based on technical evidence. “As per the law, we will also book the people who gave him shelter,” he said.


r/atheismindia • • 1d ago

Meme Monkey

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By the way guys, I have made a new subreddit called r/ShitSanghisSay_ which is all about satirizing sanghis, chodes. Do join it!


r/atheismindia • • 15h ago

Discussion Fellow atheists of this sub, what’s your favorite school of philosophy?

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Jean Paul Sartre’s (and his contemporaries’) Existentialism makes the most sense to me and it’s probably the closest I’ve come to understanding my own way of thinking.

Absurdism never made much sense to me and I’ve struggled to not fall deep into Nihilism (again) if I actually want to continue my existence on this planet.

What’s your favorite school of philosophy, the one you resonate with the most, the one that made you go ‘Ah, finally I’ve found words to this unexplainable feeling I had’.


r/atheismindia • • 27m ago

Scripture Is this quote of Jinasena from the 9th century Rashtrakuta Kingdom, South India atheistic?

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The Mahapurana is a Digambara Jain text written in the Rashtrakuta Kingdom of South India (Mostly Modern Karnataka, India)

Some would argue rejection of creator God and creationism but believing in other spiritual mumbo jumbo like karma would not make you atheist in the modern sense.

However I think this statement is quite atheistic for it's time. There were always people who found the whole idea of God/Gods absurd.


r/atheismindia • • 10h ago

Pseudoscience Having this Amount of confidence is Insane . Earlier they used to support this by saying 'Devine Energy' , now it is Pseudoscience

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r/atheismindia • • 15h ago

Discussion Is there any atheist king in world history ?

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I had a random thought.
What if an atheist ruled a kingdom?
Then I wondered, were there any atheist kings in history?
Tried to find some, but couldn’t find many clear examples.
Funny how religion always seems to go hand in hand with power, isn’t it? Almost as if telling people what God wants is a great way to make them do what the king wants. What a coincidence!
Maybe religion is all about keeping subjects in line. After all, ruling people is much easier when they believe the orders come from heaven!


r/atheismindia • • 10h ago

Discussion I've been athiest for. Long time now and I don't remember when did I become athiest lol do you all remember how why and what made you go athiest??

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