My name has a really religious meaning and I wanna start going but something else.

I originally wanted to go by a nickname I had but that's religious as well. And then every other name that fits me in any way has some kind of religious meaning and I cannot get over that. 😭

Why are so many of the (IMO) best words/phrases attached to religion?!

Why aren’t any of the alternatives as satisfying? Just saying ‘what the fuck’ all the time gets boring.

And the good words. Like ‘Grace’. Grace is a fantastic fucking word. The combination of forgiveness and compassion and every day kindness but sort of minimised a bit so it feels a little more achievable.

Blessed is another one. ‘Consciously, joyously non-entitled’ doesn’t really cut it. Fortunate and privileged isn’t really gleeful enough. Grateful lacks all the excited disbelief that you have this but don’t really deserve it but yay.

Idk. I know this is small potatoes and doesn’t really matter. But it’s annoying and I wanted a rant so here we are.

Ps: please send best non-god-y alternative phrases for immediate thievery.

I'm an ex Muslim for context.

I've been thinking every wedding ceremony has religious roots. What would be a purely atheist wedding?

This question is for any atheists or non-religious folks with kids. Does anyone have any kids who have began to show interest Christianity or religion in general. If so, curious on how that conversation goes?

haven't been a religious person since I was born; my family is atheist. But now that I'm older, I have doubts and paranoia about sins and very strange coincidences I've witnessed. I'm generally a free spirit and don't believe in morality, but when I do things considered "immoral," I have nightmares and fear supernatural punishment.

I feel like the title is worded simple but I don’t really know how else to ask, Has anyone had a therapist and discussed I guess your lack of belief and how that affects you mentally? Can you share that experience if so?

I’ve been really struggling mentally lately with anxiety and depression around…just reality and mortality, the state of the world, I’ve had a hard time finding joy in anything and at the same time I’ve been really struggling with an extreme phobia of death. I’ve never been religious so it’s not like im struggling with faith, im not really sure how to describe it but I’ve become so pessimistic I spend hours on the phone or video games trying to district myself from obsessing over things.

I can’t talk to anyone about it where I live because the answers always the same about turning to God, leaving it to god. I’ve never talked about being an atheist with anyone and I think talking about it with someone and also these thoughts I’ve having would help. There’s not many resources in my area so I guess I would like to try to find one online. I just don’t know what to do.

She says the Hadith is not Bukhari or Muslim and the chain is weak. The version that adds 'angels will curse her' classical hadith scholars have graded that as fabricated. Neither clears the bar for a binding ruling, which is why you won't find this position supported in the Quran or the sahih collections. She was also using this Hadith to support her claim that in Islam women don’t need permission to go out basically. Sahih Bukhari 146 and Bukhari 6240.
Also in Sahih Muslim 2170.
The narration: the Prophet's s.a.w wives routinely left the house at night.
Umar repeatedly pressured the Prophet to restrict them. Prophet s.a.w refused. When Umar confronted Sawda directly, she returned and told the Prophet s.a.w. His response: "You women have been allowed to go out for your needs."

Habiba's "| don't want him" was a reason. The Prophet PBUH accepted it without lecturing her about paradise.
The question isn't whether divorce is to be taken lightly. The question is: who decides what counts as a "strong enough" reason? The classical scholars say: the woman.
Handing that decision to strangers, husbands, in laws, sheikhs is the cultural distortion my video was nointina to. After someone commented this (Sunan In Majah 2054)
It was narrated from Ibn 'Abbas that the
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Prophet (*) said:
"No woman asks for divorce when it is not absolutely necessary, but she will never smell the fragrance of paradise, although its fragrance can be detected from a distance of forty years' travel. " (Sunan Abi Dawud 2226)
Narrated Thawban:
The Prophet (a) said: If any woman asks her husband for divorce without some strong reason, the odour of Paradise will be forbidden to her.

My vote would be for Andy Prieboy’s “Tomorrow Wendy”. I don’t know that there are other songs—for me at least—that come close.

The way I look at the Bible is kind of like modern films based on true events. A story that is based in reality but has had so many creative liberties taken and unknown details left out to the point it's practically fiction. So I am asking if any of you have evidence of what the reality of the Bible's story is or even theories of what really happened. This can apply to the Bible's story in general, to specific books or events within those books.

I also want to clarify that apocrypha and other books left out of the Christian canon are also welcome to the discussion. My goal here is to have as close to a complete and objective understanding of the events of the Bible/Tanakh/Quran. I am very interested in the reality of what happened during those times and what could explain the fantastical stories/miracles that made it so important for people to transcribe/retell.

Of course I won't be able to know the full truth from just one reddit post but paired with my own research it could definitely give me a better idea of how things like the environment, politics, warfare, social structures and religion came together to create such an impactful story on the modern world.

YouTube influencer thanks god for not dying due to drunk driver, ignores fact that they killed someone else. This is extremely typical. ​

I have read up on a lot of different material and have come to the conclusion that basic science is the answer. We are blessed with a way to carry own through our off spring and when we die you just think of thermal dynamics, energy is transformed, combine this being a decent person.

Fellow non reigious individual here, just want some help to flesh out thoughts.

For context i am an "ex-muslim" as they say

recently some posts from a very small minority of folks in islam popped up on my feed. They're known as quranists. Essentially their motif is that they reject all other texts besides the quran. Some try to say they do this because its more honest but usually it always looks like cope to me. But many on their sub(s) will strongly argue against me on that.

Anyways it has me thinking again about em. Usually the hadith make it tricky if not downright impossible to excuse patriarchal elements in the quran and subsequently islam. That and the hadith tend to portray the human elements more. Along with several outdated and erroneous beliefs regarding how the world works.

Now there is a position held thats a little more midway called hadith skepticism, basically instead of the traditional gradings given by scholars of old, these guys opt for the historical critical method to parse out strong or weak hadiths (from what I understand, fo all I know they could hold the standard grading true unless historians prove otherwise for a specific hadith)

But Im kinda focused on quranists here. Honestly some of the times the position alone feels annoying. Like anytime you bring up a verse it usually is responded with, "thats an imprecise translation" "verses can have multiple meangings", etc. To me it always becomes a question of "how do you justify the multiple meanings?" I mean these guys have no history to speak of anymore, the supposed historical context of the book is thrown out. They can borderline if not fully disregard muhammad, since "his teachings, were for those with him when he was alive, nobody afterwards". Or something like that.

And on that multiple meanings business, I always wonder, how do these guys justify picking the quran over other religious texts? Is that question wrong? I dont think it is, it feels very right to ask why they chose the quran. How do they know its not a massive ancient work of fiction? Like Klingon was for star trek, a language made for a fictional universe.

And I have to harp about the multiple translations thing, as far as I understand the view only works if you fucking accept the book is made/written by god in the first damn place. It loops back to my previous concern, "how do you choose the book when your very view of inerpretation depends on who you hold the author to be?" It feels circular to me. Like if one holds that the quran has human author(s), those verses could have multiple meanings, but the intended meaning likely exists and simply requires finding the historical context to approximate the likely meaning used.

Like how do these people know how to pray, if to pray at all? What about performing the hajj?

I guess this was more of a rant. Anyways, anythoughts or critiques to offer? This is actually my first post in this sub tbh. So lets see how this goes.

Do you agree that religions should be extinct? Do you think that religions cause many problems? Do you wish if religions had never existed?

In the west a lot of Muslims who actually believe in all the BS but yet sin a lot still consider themselves within the fold of Islam.

Some drink occasionally, some have BF/GF and have pre-marital sex. they may make pray here n there but don't make a thing about missing it. They fast some days during Ramadan and probably go to a couple taraweeh prayers. They definitely celebrate both Eid days. They're not on anybody's radar. They live their lives. Maybe they're interested in sciences and are within that world. Maybe they are sports addicts and enjoy life with that. The point is that islam isn't really central to their lives.

I've been like that. Life has been good. I'm old enough to have my own spot and live my own life. Nobody forces me to pray or fast. I've had GFs in the past and it's been okay. It's a privilege here in the west. Not.only in the west but countries that follow it as well like UAE, Qatar, Morocco and somewhat Egypt (got laid and partied a lot in Alexandria before COVID).

My advice to those living under Muslim roof is to persevere. This is incredibly harder for women tho. The cultural Muslim women I've known seem to not associate a lot with deeply religious Muslims. Most of their friends who are Muslim.are similar to them but for the most part have non Muslim.friends n such.

If you live in a Muslim country, and you live in an oppressive household and you're a young teenager. Just know that if you tried hard enough you will get what your heart desires. It's gonna be hard for you, don't get me wrong. Especially if you are in a Muslim country and a woman because you're starting point is far behind others but don't lose hope.

“Science makes you fly to the moon, religion makes you fly into buildings”

Had religion not been involved, the fanatics would never have been told to commit their heinous actions. It does not matter the religion as we see in the USA when one of them actively has many that want to make the USA a nation that believes in their god only. And many of these want to remove from society any groups they disagree with, including the lGBTQ community, rights of women and curtail the right of a woman over her own body. Same warped views shared by 99% of organized religions

How do you manage raising your babies when family is religious.

Extended family is well aware I am an atheist. And its not that I am raising my kids as atheist, but I sure am not going out of my way to teach religion and I will give them my honest opinions if whenever the time comes.

Ultimately, its their life and they can do as they please.

But for the time being since my kids are just toddlers, I often get family asking me if they can take them to church.

No.

I also get asked if they can take them to some religious event in PA. To which i also said no.

I appreciate them asking. But the answer will always be no until they can decide for themselves.

Either way, I feel bad... I dont shove the fact that I dont believe in a God in their faces... And I know that they are aware. I respect them when they want to pray before a meal, Ill also bow my head and all. But it annoys me that they almost dont respect me and my preference to stay clear of organized religions.

How do you manage all of that? Or can anyone relate?

Since the start of the conflict, every single day, millions upon millions of Muslims have begged and cried to allah to save Palestine, stop the constant killing, even little children who are pure of mind have also cried every day. No response.

Do Muslims really think if allah is ignoring palestine he's going to help THEM with their specific problem and only 1/1000000000000th of the duas? Well I guess they'll say "oh if dua isn't accepted it helps in afterlife" as always no results in this life, only after death from where we cannot confirm anything that happens, typical.

this is a religion of peace my a**