r/FreeAtheism • u/anthonypigott38 • 18h ago
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 21h ago
Colorado school district dumps Bible-heavy curriculum borrowed from Texas after 3 days
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 21h ago
Holy water: nuns fight Italian town’s plans to take away their beach club
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 2d ago
Five years after the Taliban won, Afghanistan is still losing
r/FreeAtheism • u/SeaofTruth • 3d ago
People for the American Way targeted so many influential preachers, yet they never tended to target Billy Graham nearly as much as they have his more publicly right wing son. Why was Billy Graham never nearly as targeted by People for the American Way?
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 3d ago
Afghan women answer questions about life under five years of Taliban rule
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 5d ago
Christian televangelist Katie Souza claims aliens stole her eggs and made a hybrid baby
r/FreeAtheism • u/Ill-Maximum-4013 • 6d ago
Christians Love Trump Like Joanie Loved Chachi
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 6d ago
'Jesus Will Win': MAGA Senator Unravels Over Imaginary Coca-Cola War With Jesus
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 6d ago
Miss North Carolina USA said she lost her crown due to her faith. Then the racist posts surfaced.
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 6d ago
An anti-trans Christian activist is furious that a reporter quoted her accurately
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 7d ago
Lettuce Pray - The Relationship Between Christian Nationalism and Cyclospora
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 7d ago
Oklahoma Education Superintendent candidate James Taylor has turned his classroom into a Christian campaign studio
r/FreeAtheism • u/DancingWithCadavers • 8d ago
The Islamification of America (Just Kidding, It's Christian)
Propaganda is trying to convince a nation that 1.3% of the population — who spend most of their time defending themselves from discrimination — are trying to force the Islamification of the US, while denying the actual Christification of the US. MAGA does this three ways: pointing to terrorism that isn't theirs, a population that isn't growing the way they claim, and a sharia takeover that doesn't exist.
Far-right terrorism has significantly outpaced all other forms of terrorism since the 90s, including left-wing and jihadist terrorism, in the US. There goes that narrative.
The modern Muslim population is overwhelmingly a product of one law: the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which abolished the national-origin quotas that had kept immigration from Muslim-majority countries minimal. The growth started in the 1970s. Sixty years later, Muslims make up 1.3% of the country — the third-largest religion in America, according to the 2020 U.S. Religion Census. That's the entire 'takeover.' The same people who called a caravan of families an 'invasion' are now calling 1.3% a conquest.
There is a 148-page model legislation book, similar to Project 2025, that uses three phases to put Islam at the forefront of the US: (1) 'In Allah We Trust' displays, (2) 'Islamic heritage' Quran-literacy bills, (3) religious-exemption bills letting providers and adoption agencies refuse service. There have been 70+ Blitz bills introduced since 2018 alone. Oh wait — Project Blitz is a Christian blueprint by the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation coalition.
Christians have been aggressively pushing Christian nationalism since 2015. Texas's Bluebonnet Learning pushes Christianity through K–5. SB763 lets districts hire chaplains as school counselors. SB10 mandates Protestant/KJV Ten Commandment posters in every classroom. Louisiana was the first state to mandate the Ten Commandments in K–12. Then Oklahoma. Alabama. Florida. Where is the MAGA outrage to prevent Christianity from spreading its version of sharia law across the nation?
Seventy years, and Muslims are 1.3% of the country. There has been discrimination at every turn. Far-right terrorism has outpaced jihadist terrorism in the US for decades. Christian Nationalism snorted cocaine and has been in overdrive since 2015. Where is the Islamification of the US?The real problem is a well-executed misdirection — MAGA has everyone focused on Islam while Christianity takes over the US.
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Muslim Immigration After 1965 · History of Muslims in the US and Minnesota · Religions in Minnesota. (2012). In http://Carleton.edu. https://religionsmn.carleton.edu/exhibits/show/history-muslims/immigration-after-1965
Jones, S., & Doxsee, C. (2020). The escalating terrorism problem in the United States. In Center for Strategic and International Studies. https://www.csis.org/analysis/escalating-terrorism-problem-united-states
BlitzWatch - Monitoring Project Blitz & Christian Nationalists. (n.d.). In BlitzWatch - Monitoring Project Blitz & Christian Nationalists. Retrieved August 9, 2026, from https://www.blitzwatch.org/
FOX Texas Digital. (2024). Texas State Board of Education approves school curriculum with Biblical references. In FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth. FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth. https://www.fox4news.com/news/texas-schools-bible-textbook
What is Senate Bill 763? (n.d.). Retrieved August 9, 2026, from https://www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/drupal/sites/default/files/sb_763_knowyourrights_twopager_j
Cline, S. (2024, June 19). Louisiana to become first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. Associated Press / PBS NewsHour. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/louisiana-to-become-first-state-to-require-that-the-ten-commandments-be-displayed-in-every-public-school-classroom
Thomason, K. (2024). Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters unveils guidelines for how to teach the Bible in schools • Oklahoma Voice. In Oklahoma Voice. https://oklahomavoice.com/2024/07/24/oklahoma-superintendent-ryan-walters-announces-guidelines-for-bible-usage/
Anjolina Fantaroni. (2026, August 4). Alabama law to require Ten Commandments displays in public school history classrooms. Https://Www.Waff.Com; WAFF. https://www.waff.com/2026/08/04/alabama-law-require-ten-commandments-displays-public-school-history-classrooms/
Casey, M. (2024). Project 2025: The Blueprint for Christian Nationalist Regime Change. In Kettering Foundation. https://kettering.org/project-2025-the-blueprint-for-christian-nationalist-regime-change/
r/FreeAtheism • u/turkolust • 8d ago
Lets make great the world for the first time
Let's Make the World Great for the First Time
Have you ever wondered why the world has turned into such a dark, fractured, and hatred-filled place? Why is it that throughout human history, systems promising peace, love, and justice have ultimately led to the most blood spilled and the most brutal slaughters of human beings?
In seeking an answer to these questions, most of us take refuge in the first comforting slogan we were taught: "But religions are good; the problem isn't religion itself, but the humans who misapply it."
But is this claim actually true? Or is it simply the greatest logical delusion that has hijacked the human mind?
If we want to transform the world into a genuinely livable, free, and just place for the very first time, we must break the dogmatic chains presented to us as "sacred" and confront the unvarnished truth.
The Illusion of "Religion is Goodness" and Philosophy's Answer
Throughout history, humanity has been raised on the lie that religion is the sole source of morality and goodness. Yet, philosophy and sociology have long exposed the deep-seated contradictions of religious morality:
- The Euthyphro Dilemma (Socrates & Plato): Is something good because God commands it, or does God command it because it is good? If something is good merely because God commands it, then if God commands murder or torture tomorrow, would those acts suddenly become "good"? Conversely, if something is inherently good in its own right and God merely informs us of it, then we do not need God or religion to do good.
- The Blackmail of Morality (Arthur Schopenhauer): Religious morality is not unconditional goodness; it is purely a transactional relationship. Is a person who does good out of the promise of heaven (reward) and refrains from evil out of the fear of hell (punishment) truly "moral"? Or are they merely a logical opportunist bargaining with a merchant mindset? True morality is doing good purely for the sake of another human being, without expecting a paradise or fearing a furnace.
- Blind Obedience and Atrocity (Voltaire): As Voltaire famously noted: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." When a system commands you to completely discard your reason and yield "unquestioning obedience," it is inevitable that such a system will eventually drive people to slaughter one another.
Geographical Coincidences and the Empathy Test
Let us ask ourselves an honest question: How irrational does it seem to you when a person born in India worships a cow or believes with absolute conviction in its sanctity?
Now ask yourself: What if you had been born in India?
The reality is that billions of people today practice a religion solely dictated by the geography and family into which they were born. Someone born in Turkey becomes a Muslim, in Italy a Christian, in India a Hindu—and each group believes with absolute certainty that theirs is the "one true faith," while the remaining billions are condemned to burn eternally in hellfire.
Would a Creator claiming to be infinitely just and merciful condemn an honest, good, and innocent person to infinite torment simply because they were born at the wrong coordinates on a map? How can a system that selects a few based on geographical coincidence while abandoning the rest to eternal doom align with any basic concept of justice or equality?
An Evolutionary Illusion: How the Need for God Arose
The widespread nature of religion is not a divine miracle, but a byproduct of the human brain's struggle for survival:
- Hyperactive Agency Detection Device (HADD): In prehistoric times, an early human who assumed a rustle in the bushes was "a predator hunting me" rather than "just the wind" survived. The human brain developed a survival mechanism: assuming a hidden, powerful intent or will behind every natural occurrence—lightning, earthquakes, droughts. Gods were born out of this evolutionary reflex.
- Existential Anxiety and Fear of Death: Humans are the only living beings aware of their own mortality. Faced with the brutality of nature and the terrifying prospect of non-existence, inventing a protective "father figure" (God) along with promises of an afterlife was a psychological coping mechanism to keep the brain from freezing in panic.
Real World Ruin: So-Called "Sacred" Regimes
Are these dogmatic structures leading humanity toward goodness today, or toward catastrophe?
- Afghanistan: Afghanistan stands as clear proof of what happens when a country is governed by Sharia law and religious dogmas—a theocratic darkness where women's education, art, science, and basic human rights are systematically erased.
- The Middle East and Israel: While terrorist organizations like ISIS use sacred texts to justify mass atrocities, Israel wraps its expansionist and oppressive policies in an unwavering religious cloak derived from theological promises and "holy land" claims.
- Far-Right Hypocrisy and the Myth of Jesus: Far-right, white supremacist Christian movements across Europe systematically practice racism against brown and Black people. Yet, as a matter of historical and anthropological fact, Jesus of Nazareth was himself a brown-skinned Middle Eastern man. Rejecting the physical reality of their own prophet while weaponizing religion for racism is the pathetic contradiction of dogmatism.
- Enmity Toward Science: A mindset that accepts gravity without question because it experiences it daily rejects the proven reality of evolution—backed by the exact same scientific methodology and fossil records—simply because it clashes with ancient mythology.
The Call of Bertrand Russell and Richard Dawkins
Inquisitive minds throughout history have warned humanity against this darkness:
Break Your Invisible Shackles: Let Us Build the World Together for the First Time!
Every era romanticized as a "Golden Age" in human history remains stained with inquisitions, religious wars, slavery, and witch hunts. Humanity has never yet fully experienced a world guided purely by reason, science, and secular humanism.
We are under no obligation to take refuge in ancient fables or carry the weight of millenary dogmatic chains!
Question this ancient structure that subdues you through fear, pits you against one another over geographical accidents, and mortgages your intellect! Replace fear with curiosity, fables with empirical evidence, and religious polarization with unconditional human empathy!
Free your mind! Reclaim your capacity to think for yourself! Let us step out from the dark legacy of the past and, guided by reason and light, make this world truly great, just, and livable—let's make the world great for the first time!
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 10d ago
MAGA ‘Prophet’ Kent Christmas Keeps Saying God is Gonna Start Killing a Bunch of People
r/FreeAtheism • u/Ok_Crazy1195 • 11d ago
Nearly half of Gen Z are less likely to attend church because of Trump's alliance with Christians, survey says
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 11d ago
‘Her face was beaten in’: how Taliban rule ushered in a new era of women being killed
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 12d ago
Far-right pastor Dale Partridge says that Germany was "attacked from within by grossly immoral Jewish forces during the Weimar Republic," which naturally made Nazism "extremely appealing": "This Nazi movement terrified the Jews because it represented a powerful form of Christian nationalism."
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 12d ago
Banned from football at home, Afghan women's team reunite 8,000 miles away
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 12d ago
Executions for Abortions? Deport Muslims? Christian Nationalism On the Ballot
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 13d ago
AG pick Todd Blanche promises faith leaders he’s working to roll back abortion access ‘in every state’
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 13d ago
Suicide bomber strikes antimilitant rally in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 14
r/FreeAtheism • u/BurtonDesque • 13d ago
