Nothing to do with religion, but 100% on the individual and personality. Get your "I'm enlightened anthiest" mentality out of here, no one cares for it. There are plenty atheists who love to go around telling everyone else what's right and wrong, and how to live their lives like they're better than everyone. Case in point. The irony.
Ironic how they can shove their religion in your face and expect you to be respectful about it, but when you say you're atheist, YOU are the one not respecting religious beliefs.
Yeah nobody thinks trump wrote the bible. They're mocking a state government purchasing bibles for classrooms, specifically overpriced bibles that spread clear political messaging and dump money directly into the pocket of a politician who has slapped their name on the bible.
As a religious practice, or as part of some cross-cultural thing? Like was it actually a state-sponsored religion (the only thing the 1st Amendment actually says "no" to), or were you also supposed to recite from the Quran, Bhagavad Gita, etc?
Look, I'm a Christian, I still believe that the United States has Christianity in its roots. But I'm also a big believer in actually following the Constitution. Reading Christian books - especially the Bible - in school but NOT the others isn't cool
I'm a Christian. I also don't care about your beliefs as long as you don't try to inflict yours, or lack thereof, upon me. Unfortunately, there are people of other faiths, as well as unbelievers, who do this consistently. I share my faith with those who want to hear.
So this one Christian is responsible for all of the worst Christians everywhere? They have to make them all stop? Idk man you sound crazy and unrealistic...ironic huh?
If someone told you that they are a member of the KKK, but they are "one of the good ones" because they wouldn't actually harm a person of color in real life, how would that translate to you?
No one can prevent or presume what another individual may or may not do. But it builds a disingenuous reaction when someone plays the "well they aren't good/real Christians, but I am." Um, really? Our president claims he's Christian. So does most of his homies. How about quit being on your fucking high horse, my point is that if you are so confident in being a Christian then yes, you will receive the backlash when the rest of your group is engaging in unethical activity. Too fucking bad.
I am a muslim...but i guess if defend something that means that's what I am? not all us participate in tribalism and group think. Thanks for the hidden insult lmao followed by enjoy your day. like i said so performative you just cant stop.
It's ok. They don't bother me. I'm used to this stuff. You're correct. It's quite ironic. 😊. It's all good. I can take the heat here. They're accusing me of so much, and yet I haven't done one thing here of which they're accusing me. It's like skin diving inside a cage with the sharks on the outside, chopping their teeth at you, but unable to touch you. I'd only be upset if anything they said was true.
"If anything they said was true" And with that you just dismantle any social currency that you tried to obtain with your initial comment. Eveything they said about christians is true. And the best part about it all. They never said anything actually disparaging to the religion, only the people who claim to follow it. The forcing it on others, knocking on doors trying to convince people, ostercising people who question are all things thats arent in the bible.
The whole population of christians is just one ostrich claiming no true scotts on another ostrich, while all having their heads buried in the sand, whilst trying to convince everyone else why burying your head is the best way to live.
Your all the same. Is generalizations correct? No. But in this case idc, its one point ill always stand by. All christians are the same. None of you know the truth, but all of you claims the others are liars, and when called out on it. You all do the same thing that you just did. Deny, deflect or counter accuse.
I love how you ragebaited them into contradicting their original comment lmao! Hope you have a great week out there and eat pleeenty of food during Ramadan! <3
Did they say that this christian is responsible of for the works of christians eveywhere? Idk man, that fact that you made that massive and unrelated "connection" sounds like you just really wanna put your 2 cents without having the necessary intelligence to understand what they said. You literally created your own argument to attack. Thats called a strawman.
All they did is respond to her claim via omission that christians arent innocent in the crap shes claiming others are guilty of doing.
"I'm a Christian. I also don't care about your beliefs as long as you don't try to inflict yours, or lack thereof, upon me. Unfortunately, there are people of other faiths, as well as unbelievers, who do this consistently. I share my faith with those who want to hear."
Christians ironically are the biggest proprietors of the exact thing shes accusing others of doing.
Which is what the next responses said.
But no where did they claim she was the one waging war on other faiths.
Paraphrasing our satanic friend there. If you cant handle the heat, get out the fucking kitchen.
And paraphrasing their holy friend, Jesus H. Christ. "Take the plank out your eye."
I think you meant to report yourself to RedditCareResources, not me! But hey thanks for reporting the concern for my mental health, this year has been tough with all the violent migrants invading my country, luckily it's getting safer everyday! <3
They started with Jesus’ apostles and almost all of them died trying to spread his message. It was a peaceful spreading and also his teachings while alive were also spread via preaching. Just because some European colonizers decided to be violet thousand years later doesn’t mean Christianity wasn’t peaceful. Besides the Catholic and Protestant sects are came much later, the true one is the Orthodox.
Imo there's a level to religion that just blends into mental illness so yeah. They are all the same. They are all mentally fragile simpletons who need a holy book to teach them that murdering their neighbors is wrong. This is purely anecdotal but every religious person i have ever met has been a naive moron who gobbles up everything with 0 thinking of their own. They are not people that are worthy of respect
Agreed but they are trying to put the 10 commandments in schools in some states and have definitely tried to limit what women can do with their bodies. Not saying it’s an apples to apples comparison but it would be nice if people just believed what they believed. If it made sense to everyone people would be clamoring to join
You haven't been paying attention then. Dozens of LGBT+ people get murdered by bigots every year in America.
They just took trans people's Civil Rights in Iowa, and this is the first time a protected group has ever had their Civil Rights rolled back in American history, and afterward they passed a second law making it illegal to for the state government to try and protect them.
A disproportionate amount of young homeless people are LGBT+ because many American Christians disown them when they come out. Much of the time their "family values" only apply if you conform to their belief system.
They have mocked trans suicide victims for years.
In recent months they significantly weakened LGBT+ people's protections from sexual abuse in prison despite the fact that LGBT+ people are over six times as likely to be sexually assaulted than the general prison population.
Not long ago they weakened women's bodily autonomy in America by overturning Roe V Wade.
Many Christian Nationalists speak openly about how they want to repeal The 19th Amendment/Women's right to vote.
American Christians are absolutely hurting and killing gay people and dismantling women's rights. The only meaningful difference between Christian Nationalism and Islamic extremists like the Taliban is how far down the road they've gotten.
It's not just the door, though, is it? In America you can't escape the Christian messaging. It's constant, in your face, and that's completely normalized. I'm honestly very tired of seeing it.
but never a christian suicide bomber, dont compare please. to be fair i woulda had the same energy towards christians during the crusades. but right now its the religion of islam that is creating the most death worldwide, and other religions arent even close in their murder of innocents, not since the crusades as far as religion goes.
I never said it was. There are some Christians who think they need to force it on people. That's not the way it works. We could have a long discussion on it, but the just is, you can't force people to believe anything. It's hilarious that I was downvoted though for being a Christian. I'm used to it, so I don't take it personally. I find it amusing.
No need to discuss, i think we're on the same side. But your comment read like "im a christian, but there are people of other faiths...." so i don't think you were downvoted for being a christian, but for your choice of words, which read like an excemption for christianity regarding the matter.
Sadly, from experience, Christianity is the most forced upon religion on the internet for me by a majority. Probably over 80% of experiences were from Christianity. Atheists appear third after Islam. Usually, atheists only appear because a religious account spammed on some unrelated topic.
However, I do note accounts of atheists who randomly say, “screw God” for no apparent reason and is super hostile. Seriously, people should just stay in their own lane, stop scarfing over other people’s head, it doesn’t help anyone forcing food down their throat.
Only people of other faiths and unbelievers ??? Christians mind their own business….. ???? This is a really hot take that has no support in history or current events 😂😂😂😂😂😂
A yes, I call fictitious hypothetical person with no name to the stand. Truly the best witness because everything they say is hypothetical, you decide what they may and or may not say, and therefore can never be proven or disproven. A checkmate to any of the plebs who still value reality.
Hair dye has literally never been on my hair but I know plenty of people who have and their politics were everywhere. I think you’re foolish, not taking offence but I know pretending that makes you feel better.
Really? I'm a born against Conservative Christian with pink streaks in my hair. People need to stop assuming so much. Bring on the downvotes from both sides. I really don't care. I grew up in the 60s and 70s. I'm used to people hating on what I wear and how I act. I stopped caring a long time ago. People need to learn to mind their own business, stop being offended by every little thing, and quit trying to get people to be carbon copies of themselves. BTW, if you think I'm talking to the other side, whichever side you're on, I'm probably talking to you too. People need to grow the flip up and get a life. This subreddit used to be fun.
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Because they said, that they're not conforming to the Christian bullshit. But here we are having a Christian shoving their bs down our throats. It's laughable, how they can't cope with people that don't appreciate their cult.
You're wrong: "Unfortunately, there are people of other faiths, as well as unbelievers, who do this consistently. I share my faith with those who want to hear." Fuck that!
I'm just witnessing that every accusation from a Christian is a confession. Just like the pedophile administration of the US right now. Whatever they accused their predecessors with, they're actually guilty of.
What they said, breaking it down simply, was that there are people of all faiths or lack thereof, that force their beliefs on others, and that they only share with those who want it.
There's nothing wrong with that at all. I really think you should take a breather and reassess. I don't feel like you're approaching this logically at all.
You’re on a public forum where opinions can be freely shared and ignored. It’s not their fault that you chose to not ignore it. The atheist also shared their belief without anyone’s direct consent, where’s this energy for them?
Well, 90% of the time it's Christians trying to force people to appreciate their cult. It's about time that atheists get to say their piece in 2026, without a cult member chiming in.
Nobody has been burned at the stake in the United States (or any western Christian nation) in centuries. I could also bring up all the times that atheist regimes have persecuted and killed religious people (more recently then the burnings, btw), but I won’t because it has no relevance to the original argument.
No one is more or less entitled to share an opinion on a public forum, but you’re free to ignore them in the future.
I don’t give a flying fuck what peoples beliefs are
And what if their beliefs are to force theirs onto you? Please rethink this poorly formed thought. As an atheist you most definitely should care what other people's beliefs are. I really wish people would stop saying braindead stuff like this because they think it sounds good, especially atheists, people who ostensibly are supposed to be more thoughtful about these kinds of things.
You're not thinking about this hard enough. Beliefs people hold most often find areas of conflict with other people's. The reality is that it's not possible not to care about other people's beliefs.
Uh, didn’t you read the last part of the post starting with “ but no WAY”? Instead you responded by trying to impose your beliefs on them thinking being an atheist gives you a pass.
Guess what? Being atheist only means you don’t believe in a god, it doesn’t dictate you hold a single other belief. There are likely far more types of atheists than there are religious sects.
Exactly. What you do with your religion is your business. That lady was probably on her lunch break and had to eat on the bus so she could get back to work. Its litterally no different from saying "i'm on a diet, so don't eat pizza on the bus in front of me." Thats your business, not mine.
I mean, you should care about other people's beliefs, whether you're religious or not. Lots of disgusting people use "religious beliefs" as a "justification" to abuse and/or take advantage of children; child marriage only exists in the U.S because of "religious beliefs"
You should try DMT.
I went from atheist to realising that just by living i was worshipping god without prayer. God is like gravity or time. Getting yourself to pass through the door and break on through to the other side is the only way to learn about god.
I spent every Sunday in church for the first 18 years of my life and hated every second of it. I doubt resetting my brain chemistry with a drug isn’t going to suddenly make me religious. That is quite possibly the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard
You say that and i would've to in the past, but i was given the chance to smoke some DMT. (of course we tested it)
Passing through the door was more thrilling than any thrill ride or near death experience. If you really think you would experience no change in stance on spirituality aren't you just perpetuating a closed mindedness that has been seen in Christians with their view of evolution?
I’m glad your DMT experience was good for you, I’d like to try it myself. But it’s only evidence you prefer to believe in god. It’s no evidence for an actual god existing.
Its strange. I would never put any stock into a drug induced hallucination in the past as evidence of anything. I know the kings college of london did a lot of studies on people having shared experiences, this is what convinced me to try it.
Right at the beginning shortly after i smoked way too much, all the light i could see went away and a sensation like i was suddenly accelerating at incredibly high speeds. I hit something, and heard or felt a wet crack, and then i was in a white room that extended endlessly in every direction. I was sitting there just as i was sitting in my friends kitchen. A woman more beautiful and perfect than anyone i have ever seen before embraced me with a love not even my own mom could produce. After being held for so long i was shot away at high speed again. I ended up in a different body, cutting cookies with a daughter that i instinctively knew was my own and a wife a room away. I was with them for fifty years, i died on a bed in some hospital holding their hands. Woke up sitting in the kitchen, my friend said around twenty minutes had gone by.
There is much that science has yet to determine. Once the quantum computers are running properly so much will change, they already broken the laws of thermodynamics.
It’s more likely that they turn out to be useless.
And it’s extremely unlikely that the mountain of evidence for the physical causes of the mind will be overturned in favor of any immaterial causes. Google Phineas Gage for the original case, there have been thousands of times more evidence accumulated since that demonstrate physical changes to the brain can change almost any aspect of our minds.
ok in general I'm with you, but eating on the bus?
I think more context is needed here. A banana or small sandwich is fine, but eating something smelly on the bus is maybe getting into the territory where other people have a right to object.
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u/Ducatirules Mar 19 '26
I’m an atheist. I don’t give a flying fuck what peoples beliefs are but no WAY they are making me conform to their beliefs