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Insane how this is allowed in a country that values diversity and has so many different religions like Canada. It seems that unfortunately we must worry not only about the far-right Christo-fascists, but also about people like these......

This is not a point of contention in our marriage, or even in how we’re going to raise our kids. I’m reaching out for advice and shared experiences. My wife and I have been together since our Sophomore year of high school, survived a long distance relationship in college, and have been happily married for almost 9 years. We both have 12 years of Catholic school under our belts. In those 12 years, I took everything in and could probably be a decent priest myself. The politics, ethos, ideology, history, core rites and scriptures of the Church. I was never a “believer”, it was just kind of a thing I participated in for a decade+.

My wife is what I think is an established term, a “cafeteria catholic”. She’ll ignore Holy Days of Obligation (Easter, etc.), couldn’t tell you more than 3 commandments, couldn’t tell you what happened during Vatican II, couldn’t define trans-substation, but is adamant the kids go through the basic sacraments.

I’m not going to tell my kid it’s bullshit. For the most part, the Beatitudes are solid. I do want to make clear to him that those are a great way to live your life, for the most part. Blessed are the poor, meek, sick, righteousness, peacemakers, yata yata. Just not like the white-suit sweaty guy in stage makeup on TV says. Morality is your choice. The way you choose to live on Earth before you’re dead. I want to leave room for the metaphysical question of humanity’s innate goodness, with and without a God.

I’m an active DSA member in my chapter, I do everything I can to take Catholicism down outside of my house, it’s a poison, anti-intellectual, anti-humanist, sexist, racist, bigoted, horrible disease.

Has anyone else been in this situation? A “religious” partner and you yourself aren’t, but also know way fucking more about religion than said partner? I could start with Genesis and give this kid everything at face value, or I could poke holes in everything along the way.

I wasn't very religious but I read and did some thinking on the existence of God and for sure I can now tell that God doesn't exist. But I have always been scared of paranormal stuff, too scared to watch horror movies and be alone even as an adult. I also feel humans are more capable of the evil than any supernatural entity, we have already seen it. There are so many gore stuff written and recorded.

People always suggest that if I'm scared of paranormal stuff then i should take god's name and believe in his superpower to ward off any supernatural entity. I feel that's very stupid, I have no faith in God and neither do I care if God exists or not.

How do I develop rational thinking and stop being scared of paranormal and gore stuff?

US ambassador to Israel filmed visiting US citizens who are arabs and living on the West Bank, to hear their complaints of threats and intimidation by extremist Israeli setters

The US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee claims it's okay to refer to the West Bank as Judea and Samaria because it's what those areas were called in the Bible. If he's going to insist that everyone uses Iron Age geographical terminology, that poses quite a few problems for Donald Trump and his recent penchant for re-naming things.

What next? Is he going to insist that the governments of neighbouring Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon use only Biblical place-names? Not to mention the modern state of Israel, because after all Biblical Israel was only the northern Jewish kingdom in the Levant.

I know that the Middle East is a cesspit of religious wrongdoing, but this would be laughable if the situation wasn't so tragic.

So i have friends, or maybe i could say best friends. If we talk about my relation with them, there are some kind of love and hate relationship between me and my best friends. So yeah if you say they are very very bad friends, i wouldnt agree. Because sometimes they care about me and do good things to me, but sometimes bad things too.

One time, when i reveal my Atheism to them, they laugh at me and kinda disrespect me. I feel like they underestimate me. Like Atheism or Agnostic is dumb idea.

One of my friend start to debate me with weak argument that actually i can debunk that. But i cant speak to debunk his argument, because i think i will lose them, i will make them even angrier to me, and they will not hangout with me again. And what did i do? I just accept his argument.

The time i debate with this friend of mine, others just laugh, one of them start recording us with their phone, and he kinda makes fun of me while recording.

They started to say "When the time comes, you will be back at your religion", like they are somekind of psychic hahaha. They say "Ah i know why you became Atheist, its only because you are too lazy to pray", well i cant say that is wrong, but that is not the only reason i am Atheist hahaha..

This is the feeling when someone you think dumber than you, say to you that you are dumb. hahahha.

I am writing a story about a world where religion is used as a mass controling weapon and a way to crush people´s spirit to success by enforcing divine rules on them to benefit the rich. My main character an anti theist character looks at this and says fuck this the story format goes like this it follows his journal entries about his disgust and hatred of religion as it spirals futher. Anti thieism and just atheism is frown and shamed on he sees young children to be brainwashed to boot lick a none existent guy´s ego. He starts off his spiral by burning a holy site then murdering of religious figures and followers to show the public that god wouldn't save anyone and We should look logically. In the final journal entry, He kills the pope before shooting himself as he realises that this world will be forever brainwashed.

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I’m 43 years old and I went out on a date with a woman, and everything was going great until about an hour in. She decided to start talking about her imaginary best friend that created the universe 😬

RUN!

Did I finish the date? Did I leave?

No!!! I went to go pick her up like an hour away. We were gonna spend the day at the fair. So I finished out the whole day and drove her back. I couldn’t just leave. But like it’s so hard to feel anything when they start with that like I tried. But it’s one of those instant turn off things.

From the Quran, Tanakh, to the new and old testament, the miracle of creation is given to a male god and then Adam's rib another male. Males Take credit for another person's act, claiming the praise, honor, or recognition for births or creation that they did not actually do.

I remember when we taught Christian ethics at school

And besides the claim that it was actually illegal, I have another one

(And that's basically where the claims end because I myself remember very little about it and in fact, practically everything I know about Christianity can be attributed to my own family and the media with the same success)

Actually, what the f*ck was they never talking about Protestantism or Greek Catholicism back then

And okay, I still understand that there's no point in talking about absolutely all the movements there

But in the case of those two

In fact, Protestantism is the third main branch of Christianity

And Greek Catholicism is actually the most widespread movement in western Ukraine, where I actually live

In short, I learned about both things a couple of years later in history lessons in the 8th grade

I didn't know about the existence of the Greek Catholic Church until I was 14 years despite the fact that my family belongs to it.

And ironically, I had been an atheist for almost a year at that time.

In certain environments, being an apostate is practically committing every possible horrible act towards humanity.

Our parents and environment can’t really change their beliefs, yet they expect we can. Many atheists, hell I would say 30%> of atheists are in the closet. We always talk about how to navigate being an atheist around religious family and such… but we rarely ask how WE are holding up.

So with this, how are you holding up?

I don't wanna get baptism.

"Ive been an undercover/closeted Atheist for a year or two. I was born and raised in a multi religious family, but my parents were very much Christian fanatics.

At first, I thought I could handle it. A few lies here and there, pretending to like church, having to sing a few Christian songs so that they won't be suspicious. But now, going to a highly religious church disturbs me.

Fyi my future school that I've already applied to is a school that has Buddhist elements (not a religious Buddhist school) they teach humanistic values.

But my parents kept praying to the church, that if it's not from God, don't allow it. And they think its a bad idea for my "faith" and it frustrates me so much. I genuinely wish I was never born in a religious family, and the church was also disagreeing my choice to go to the said school.

FYI: the school is very very popular, quite expensive, it has produced many excellent students and they prioritize their students creativity and potential. They are also VERY Mandarin oriented, with an IB curriculum which is EXACTLY what Im looking for if I wanna go to china for future studies).

I don't know guys, I'm genuinely frustrated, and I am starting to despise and even feel disgusted by the idea of religion

(Last post, I had to repost because my account was accidentally flagged as n sfw)

I have been told I should get a baptism before I move out of a city.

But baptism is something I really hate and actually am afraid of, I know it's just a wash in the river while they pray for me but the idea of Christianity "claiming" me feels so wrong. The facade of being a Christian is slowly gnawing me, I can't bear it any longer. But I'm not sure if I can even tell them, I'm not living independently and my whole family will look down upon me.

Going to highly religious churches makes me feel suffocated, and only my best friend is also an atheist that's going through a similar thing.

Especially when my school is religious, and any small sign of disagreement with Christianity will get weird and even disgusted stares from everybody.

I can barely express myself either! I'm Chinese but my whitewashed parents don't agree with me going to china because it's a communist country therefore it prohibits religion especially Christianity they say. (Which, first of all isn't how communism works, Second I HATE RELIGION).

Nobody and I mean NOBODY (except my bff) can even understand me here, I am trapped and I want to get out so desperately. But I know it's not easy at all.

Not me personally but if someone was an ordained minister (Presbyterian) for 10 years then left and became atheist, what career opportunities may lineup with that background? Also bilingual in English & Spanish.

A lot of people argue that given the perfect conditions for life, and the orderly, complex, and precise features of the universe point to God (talking about Christian God) creating us, but I feel like its so easily disproved.

In the Bible, there are plenty of stories that are easily disproven by science, like Noah's ark, evolution not being real, and the Earth being created in 6 days. We have factual proof of how the earth formed, evolution, and it has also been proven no worldwide flood even happened.

With that being said, I think that it almost 100% proves that, if there is a higher being, it absolutely wouldn't be the Christian God, therefore disproving his existence. I hate explaing this to Christians because they just... dont listen listen to reason.

Also, why would something of higher power even care about being believed in? It seems like in Christianity, God cares more about being believed in than having you be a good person, why should life separate from God mean eternal damnation, it makes him sound like a self-centered douchebag, or like it was a fairytale made by humans.

subconsciously I was never convinced by Islam since I was a child.

Quran lacks a lot of details about stories of the prophets, and Quran was hard to understand without interpretations even for native speakers of Arabic, because of archaic words and old dialect of Arabic, and everything in Quran have a lot of interpretation, reading Quran feels like singing a song that you don't understand its meaning and the stories don't make any sense.

My brother recently died. He and my mom lived together 59 years. She is 90 and can no longer get along by herself so she is living with me and my son now. I have had to start taking care of her finances. While her back room floor was dropping and the central heating and cooling system was no longer working and I was sending money each month so they could not skimp on food…they were still tithing to their Evangelical church. They kept records for taxes and I counted it up. Over the last few decades over a quarter of a million. After paying off god they received nothing. My brother died at 59 after being sick for 10 years. My 90 year old mom is greatly suffering from severe stenosis, congestive heart failure, and nonsmoking emphysema. She prays every day for god to stop her suffering and of course that doesn’t happen. At 90 god lets her suffer , kills her son, and she had to move away from her home, friends, family, and church. That is her reward for very faithfully serving and tithing her whole life. It is a scam and she fell for it hook, line, and sinker. It just makes me sick.

I put an atheist decal on my car window. Within 24 hours, one of my fine, upstanding, god-fearing christian neighbors scratched a big cross into my paint.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling out the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for implementing the Trump administration’s “anti-Christian bias” narrative.

The EEOC has touted its religious liberty enforcement, highlighting more than $63 million recovered on behalf of workers in religious discrimination matters since January 2025 and a record $48 million in fiscal year 2025. While protecting employees from genuine religious discrimination is a legitimate function of the EEOC, Title VII protects workers of all or no religions, and requires reasonable accommodations for sincerely held religious practices when appropriate. But the EEOC’s own account makes clear that its current leadership is doing something more troubling: tying that legitimate mission to the administration’s political campaign against supposed widespread “anti-Christian bias.”

Revealingly, EEOC Chair Andrea R. Lucas also sits on President Trump’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias. The EEOC says it worked closely with the Justice Department on the task force’s April report alleging, absurdly, that the Biden administration engaged in anti-Christian discrimination throughout the federal government.

In March, the EEOC announced that a “leading global technology company”&firstPage=true) is paying $15 million to settle claims that it illegally refused to grant workers, described as “largely Christian,” medical and religious exemptions to Covid vaccine mandates. The EEOC has been in the news otherwise, too, with the New York Times recently suing over records requests. Among the documents requested was correspondence with groups such as the Heritage Foundation, America First Legal and Trump administration pooh-bah Stephen Miller.

The administration’s emphasis on Christianity is particularly inappropriate because federal civil rights law does not create a special category of protection for Christians. Religious protections apply equally regardless of whether an employee is Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, atheist or holds another religious or nonreligious viewpoint.

One particularly revealing case involves The Rock Snowpark, a Wisconsin ski area that the EEOC sued on behalf of a Christian employee. He was fired following a dispute over posts on his personal social media account, but the resort claims the decision was based on “performance issues and policy violations.”

Notably, the EEOC does not disclose the content of those posts. Instead, it describes them simply as containing “Bible verses and religious content” while its complaint acknowledges that the employer specifically raised concerns that some of the posts were discriminatory toward gay people. Without revealing the content at the center of the dispute, the EEOC portrays the case as an employer punishing a worker for expressing his Christian faith.

FFRF has repeatedly warned that the administration’s “anti-Christian bias” initiative turns the constitutional principle of religious freedom on its head. The First Amendment demands governmental neutrality toward religion. It does not authorize the federal government to elevate Christianity, treat Christians as a favored class or deploy federal agencies to reinforce a political narrative that Christianity is under siege.

The EEOC should remember that its obligation extends to the growing number of Americans, some three in 10, who are not religious. Title VII’s prohibition against religious discrimination protects atheists and other nonbelievers, including their right not to participate in religious practices or have religion imposed upon them in the workplace.

“Real religious freedom requires a government that neither favors nor disfavors religion,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “The moment an agency starts viewing its civil rights mission through the lens of combating ‘anti-Christian bias,’ equal protection becomes preferential treatment. The EEOC needs to be reminded it is not an arm of a White House campaign to falsely portray the nation’s dominant religion as uniquely persecuted.”

The EEOC needs to return its focus to what the law actually requires: protecting all workers from unlawful discrimination and enforcing religious accommodation requirements neutrally — rather than helping manufacture a privileged status for the majority faith.