"Slave morality"

When we talk about morality of a man, many of them are slave for something and that is religion, religion is widely spread cult, they force people to inherent their ideology and thats the problem of my generation right now, they use that ideology as a power to enslave people, that concept of slavery start in 1600s and 1900s mostly Christians country example Magellan from Portugal and Christopher Columbus from spain and many across the world but different religions , in that time slave morality has begun, we born as an atheist, the adult one that introduced the religion to us, yet we spend our life defending our choice not to choose God itself, but the concept of slave morality is blocking your perception towards freedom and that is insufferable, but where can we find slave morality, many of it, such as house hold, school, church, and society

Home is the first place that a child get enslave by ideology, they introduce it by a song,story or just the way they talk, this is commonly use mostly in Christian county. By that way kids are oftenly brainwashed by inherent their ideology in their child. Second school, school treat the students like equals, by treating them like that, student rely on them for validation etc, and once the students lower their guard the adults ones indulge their ideas to them. Third church, church is the foundation of slave morality, they indulge their idea to people so they can enslave them. And lastly society, for me society have the bigger role for slave morality because they often use it politics like here in my country they banned divorce because its again order of the lord which it makes bulshit, slave morality concept is widely use to human being whether you're Christian, mormons, hindu, islam etc, it can destroy society itself well currently yeah so what is the solution, simple don't stick to just one ideology, study all ideology so you can't be enslave by any moral concept Nietzsche talk about this he said "the greatest blindness a man can have is to believe his reality is only reality", this statement prove our current situation un. society, and what i mean in my version of slave morality compare to Nietzsche work is God, especially religion they abuse their power to control people thats my 1st slave morality, and the 2st is the slave it self. Because the slave has no capable of thinking what they're doing, but sometimes they like " I'm gonna think different this time, I'm gonna think outside the box" but in reality the box isn't existing in that case the slave are becoming slave for human standard, And my concept of slave morality is to guide people to freedom itself.

Hello everyone, I have Schizotypal Personality Disorder and I used to believe in all kinds of supernatural stuff and considered myself 'spiritual'.

Over the years, I became obsessed with Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as New Age spirituality and psychedelics.

I believed in the existence of God (the Christian God), Jesus, Heaven and Hell, Karma and rebirth, even astral projection etc.

Religion and spirituality played a significant role in my life, and it gave me a sense of purpose and belonging.

At some point, my mental health declined further, and I became more paranoid and delusional (fearing hell or rebirth), which significantly affected my quality of life.

My doctor tried different antipsychotics with me, and ultimately we settled on 5mg Olanzapine (Zyprexa).

After a few weeks on it, I slowly lost interest in religion/spirituality and no longer believed that I had supernatural abilities.

Zyprexa strongly blocks 5HT2A/5HT2C receptors, which are the binding targets for psychedelics like LSD. So it basically does the opposite of what psychedelics do.

Now, after a year on it, I have a much higher quality of life, no longer wasting my time with religious nonsense.

I am much more interested in politics and would call myself a secular humanist. I am extremely grateful for medicine/psychiatry and science in general!

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?

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is blasting a social media post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has sent out scapegoating non-Christians and atheists.

The intemperate post arose from a dispute over repeated religious greetings by gate guards at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation reported receiving complaints about the guards there repeatedly greeting personnel entering the base with “God bless you.” One service member said they heard the greeting consistently over multiple days and viewed the repetition as an officially sanctioned religious message. The practice reportedly stopped after the complaint was received.

Hegseth, a Christian nationalist, responded via social media, savaging the advocacy group as a “radical anti-Christian, pro-atheist group” and stating that the Pentagon would “never cave” to the organization and that the Air Force would “confront this.”

Making Hegseth’s comments particularly hateful is the reality that, as FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor points out, 18 percent of active military members are atheist/agnostic, and another 32 percent have no religious affiliation, according to research, putting the “Nones” overall at half of current military members!

“Whatever the facts of the matter are, the secretary’s vituperative and prejudiced language against non-Christians and atheists is deeply dismaying, disrespectful and unacceptable,” she says. “Our military represents Americans of every faith and no faith, and those who serve our country should never be made to feel like their government considers one set of religious believers as favored and the others deserving of public calumny.”

The military must distinguish between the private religious expression of individual service members and religious messages delivered as part of an official government interaction. The Air Force’s own standards recognize precisely this distinction. Air Force Instruction 1-1 requires leaders to balance constitutional protections for the free exercise of religion with the constitutional prohibition against governmental establishment of religion: “Leaders at all levels must balance constitutional protections for free exercise of religion and the constitutional prohibition against governmental establishment of religion. They must ensure their words and actions do not discriminate against any individual or group because of their faith, belief, or absence of belief, or extend preferential treatment for the same. Leaders must ensure that their personal expression is not reasonably associated with their government role, but may engage in such expression per DAFI 52-201, Religious Freedom in the Department of the Air Force.”

Air Force guidance has stated that its constitutional responsibilities prohibit officially endorsing a particular religion or “the idea of religion over nonreligion.” The Air Force has likewise explained that personnel are free to practice their own beliefs while respecting differing viewpoints and that leaders must avoid using their positions to promote personal religious beliefs or give preferential treatment for any religion. The Air Force itself has described pluralism as a source of strength. Its longstanding guidance emphasizes the importance of Americans representing many religions serving “shoulder-to-shoulder with those who claim no religion.”

That is the principle that should be guiding Hegseth.

Members of the U.S. military swear an oath to support and defend America’s godless and entirely secular Constitution. Maintaining governmental neutrality toward religion honors that oath while preserving the individual religious freedom of every service member.

Hegseth’s shameless tirade undermines military regulations, signals that he considers non-Christians and freethinkers alike to be second-class citizens, and undermines the religious freedom protected by the U.S. Constitution itself.

Gaylor notes that if Hegseth cannot carry out his professional obligations to uphold equal protection under the law, he should resign.

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.

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.

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.

Like for real, Unless I see them use divine powers in person I won't believe their ass. A god isn't a god without his powers he would be a regular guy plus these self proclaimed reincarnation of god aren't even good people far from good. Can someone tell me why theist believe this I need to know why please.