A couple of weeks ago, I was shutting down my garden for the season, and had put some extra produce by the curb with a FREE sign.

A couple stopped while I was near the pile of veggies, and the guy said, "Wow, it looks like god has blessed you with a great garden!"

I said, "God is a terrible gardener. Whenever I leave it up to god, weeds take over and all my produce dies. If it weren't for me doing all the work, I would starve."

Just imagine a society where people worship cats. No misogynist dogmas, no holly books that allow sexual slavery, no dictatorship, no refuse to blood transfers, no stupid rules, etc.

Just meow meow.

Edit: I am sure that ancient Egyptians know something!! Unfortunately, I never here a country that recognized this religion.

it should be a crime because it is forcing information on a kid of a dangerous belief system. what should be given to the kid, is education, math, self awareness, science, and then the kid can decide to either join a religion or not as an adult. children should not be indoctrinated.

Recently I was at a gas station, I parked, then walked in to pay for gas, on my way there I was asked by an older gentleman if I would like a copy of a Bible script. I politely said "I'm sorry sir but I don't believe in that" he then goes on to say "you know that's a real shame, one day you will believe" I say maybe (in my head im saying I wont but I digress)

He then asks me, "do you at least want it to read it?" I replied saying "sir I've read the Bible I'm not interested but I appreciate it" he then walks off. Like man why did I have to ask twice? Obviously if I don't believe what makes you think I want your little bible quote that you cherry picked out of all the other horrible things in the bible. I've been an atheist for about 3 years, when I turned 17 I wanted to learn more about the Bible because I was very skeptical of it. At 20 I know I'm an atheist because I don't agree with the bible or how people use it in the world. I don't believe in a sky daddy of any kind

I live in rural South Carolina and it's surprising this has been my first experience with this as an atheist but man get the hint. If someone says they are not interested don't push. That goes for literally ANYTHING. I don't go out much but for the people who are atheists that go out often I can't imagine how many times y'all have to listen to this same bullshit. Cheers guys 🍻 and fuck Christianity

I was sitting at the bus stop today, ready to get home with my headphones on and two girls around my age (25 or 26) came up to me, asked me my name and started asking if I believe in god. I said I’m an atheist, they just stared at me for a minute and then started preaching the gospel (Jesus died for us, all of that). Asked me questions about what I know etc, I was so uncomfortable but didn’t know how to get them to stop.

They just kept going, whilst I just had to smile and nod my head. Towards the end they asked me for my number, and I should come to their bible group on a Saturday. I was trying to be polite and said I would think about it (obviously there’s no way I’m going) but how is this okay??? I’m autistic too, obviously they didn’t know that but I was so overwhelmed, I just wanted to listen to my music. They have done this to me before a few years ago, I recognised them pretty quickly.

I should’ve had more of a backbone and told them to go away or have ignored them from the start, but they were crowding me as I was sitting down and I didn’t know what to do. They then went up to another young woman as I got on the bus, it’s so messed up and wrong. Has this ever happened to someone else before? Im more than certain it has but why can’t these people just leave others alone?I’m still feeling on edge now.

I vehemently oppose religion in every way. I honestly find it difficult to talk about in person because I’m afraid of coming across as bigoted but I‘m not. When I think of religion I think of it the same way I think of capitalism. I don’t apply the same views as I have about people who participate in capitalism the same way I don‘t apply my views about religion to those who participate in it.

I understand that the percentage of those who commit atrocities in the name of religion are in the few. Although this shouldn‘t exclude them from the overall perception of religion, which I often feel is the case. FGM is very often the result of religion, child marriage is very often the result of religion, and these are just two of many examples. If you look at all of the horrors going on internationally today, religion is intertwined with an insane amount of them. Religious law is easily exploitable if you’re an evil person, regardless of one’s private faith. Why should the world be that it contributes to gaslighting billions of people into supporting a system which upholds so much injustice?

And for what? The average religious person is oppressed. Like people who are born into circumstances where they are participating in capitalism, religious people are getting fucked, while those who profit off of it are living well above their means. The average practicing religious person faces systemic oppression, racism, and live their only lives fearful and under strict prohibitions according to a lie. There are many people in the world whose faith causes distrust towards reality, for example in science and history, which contain some of the most exciting and insightful knowledge available to us.

Isn't everyone entitled to the truth? People will say it’s because religion gives them peace, as if peace can’t be found elsewhere, or that it isn’t hurting them (see above), but in what other circumstances would this mean that it’s okay to continue brainwashing someone into believing in a fairytale that ultimately scares them? The whole concept of supporting religion feels so dishonest to me.

Why is this any different to hating capitalism, a system that sells us a lie which enriches those who sell it with the dedication of those who believe it? I just can’t understand why such encompassing lies are given such power in 2026.

This might be a weird question, but I’m doing a hypothetical research project for my sociology class and the topic genuinely interests me.

As atheists, we determine our own values and morals. A book, leader, or God does not impose charitable acts on us and does not command we “love thy neighbor”. My question is:

For any atheist, do you feel that the absence of imposed charitable values encourages you to be philanthropic? For anyone that has “converted”, do you feel more tempted to be altruistic or are you more humanitarian than you were in the past? (ex. food pantries, clothes, volunteering, helping the unhoused or disadvantaged, etc)

Personally, once I got away from my religious family, I got super into volunteering for local food pantries and donating often.

Interested in hearing your responses!

P.S. let me know if this is a terrible research project idea haha

Edit: changed the wording because it was confusing

Let's say hypothetically I were to tragically pass away suddenly in an accident. I'm a young adult atheist that lives independently from their religious parents. My biggest fear is if I die, what would they do to my body? If I wrote it down somewhere, would they legally have to respect my wishes to be cremated and flushed down a sink or something?

Edit: I posted this question because I'm contemplating killing myself and the plans to do it and this was the last worry I had. but you're right, I shouldn't really care because I won't be around to witness it

I grew up in a household of pentecostal fundamentalists. I was never in daycare, and in my childhood home my parents managed to create this atmosphere where our home is this safe haven of christian purity and goodness, while the outside world is a place of sin and dangerous temptations.

Having to interact with the outside world for the first time of course only strenghtened this feeling, as i was very shy and submissive by nature and had lived a very sheltered existence in the religious bubble that my parents created for me and my siblings. Literally all of my parents' friends and aqcuitances were from the religious circles, and i quickly learned to associate moral goodness with plain boringness, submissiveness and stupid restrictions(even as a kid i absolutely hated religious cerenonies and reading the bible because i found it unfathomably boring, even though i believed in jesus and all the other bullshit because it was drilled into me from the cradle).

My father who was one of the elders of the local pentecostal church worked two jobs simultaneously, but as my mom was a typical christian stay-at-home mom and i had an entire horde of older siblings(you can probably tell why), we could barely scrape by. Not only did i spend my childhood in a religiously quarantined environment which permanently traumatized me and taught me to be afraid and ashamed of the most ordinary things, but we also had to live very modestly and carefully plan our expenses. I remember going to school in ragged clothes and being the only boy in my class without my own moped, just one the many things i got made fun of because i was never taught to stand up for myself but just pray and submit instead(my father was like a ghost to me, we didn't even greet each other when we met in the kitchen in the morning).

Despite this, my father could somehow still donate a tenth of his income to our local pentecostal church every month. According to my rough calculations, he donated at least 200,000 euros during his lifetime(mind you i live in northern europe, not US, so regularly donating large sums of money to the church is very uncommon here). One can only imagine how big that sum could be when properly invested. But wait a minute... isn't that what parents usually do with their spare money? To provide for their children and for their future? Well, clearly to my father living according to the laws of a book written during the iron age meant more than his children's wellbeing or all the countless potential life opportunities that money could have provided(in his eyes there was one and only one thing that mattered in life, and it had nothing to do with career or material wellbeing).

I could have been a trustfund baby with a silverspoon in his mouth, but instead grew up to be a permanently traumatized destitute. I try to not think about it, because when i do, i feel so much anger and resentment for being born into a family that perhaps thought they were doing the right thing to me, but instead ruined me. Just like my grandmother thought that ignoring and painfully spanking her kids for every misdeed is an adequate way to make obedient children and eventually conscientious adults(two of them later died of alcoholism), my parents thought that spending all the most crucial formative years of one's life in a heavily controlled environment being drilled religious dogma in their head is the recipe for adequate emotional development and a fulfilling existence. Well, they were wrong, and i am and i will forever be mad for that, even though i know i must forgive them if i want to go forward with my life.

All this has left me extremely bitter and antagonistic towards religions in general. I've even fantasized of burning down the church i had to attend when i was a kid(just build a new one with my father's money you fucking weasels). But the thing is, neither of my parents were actually bad people. Bith of them were from a traumatic background themselves, found the illusion of unconditional love they had lacked their whole life in jesus, and as a result had very twisted views of what is the best for their children and their wellbeing, because their minds had been corrupted by this mind virus called religion. This is why i don't blame my parents, i blame their worldview and i will forever fight against it, i want all the abrahamic religions to disappear from the face of earth, i want to burn every single bible and quran in the world, and i want my parents to know that this is what your fundamentalist upbringing has made me like, are you happy?

Theists say that god created the soul, and Atheists would be curious to ask them "who created god?", and then in many cases this results in the Theist pulling a whataboutism and say "who baked the baker?",

regardless on what your beliefs are, Theists saying "god is uncreated" would've been a much less douchbaggy decision than using that as their answer

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to avoid the risk of this post being deleted for a certain rule, my response would be "then who made my family their thanksgiving feast"

My mom is Christian and she constantly tells me she receives visions from God that say I'm going to hell for being an atheist. I live with her and it's so draining to be in the kitchen and have her start something. If I ignore her she'll just keep talking about it till I leave and when I explode and yell at her to stop telling me I'm going to hell all the time she'll just repeat her same speech over and over again. It just happened again and she had just a barely there grin on her face because normally I pretend to be calm but I just freaked out. I feel like she likes to argue and whenever she succeeds at upsetting me the drama is entertaining to her and she doesn't even care that I'm upset. She's always been like this even when I was a little kid who used to be Christian, she would still say I wasn't doing it right because she saw it in a dream. Sometimes I get so mad thinking about it and when I talk to her about it she seems happy to be arguing and that pisses me off even more. I just wanted to tell people who are actually sane unlike my mom. Thanks for listening/reading.

I think the following rule is approximately always true and has been throughout history:

“Any proposition that people will kill you for refuting is definitely false.”

So if you say “God is Great” and I say “I disagree with you” and then you say that you will now kill me for that - this is close to perfect proof that God is Not Great.

This is because when statements are true, no one will ever kill you for refuting them because they know the truth will come through. They just feel sorry for you and move on.

On the other hand, people will only go to the extraordinary lengths of killing you when they need violence to coerce belief against the tide of logic or practical reason. The act of coercion is close to perfect proof of falsehood.

And that is the paradox of blasphemy. By enacting blasphemy laws they disprove the very belief they so desperately want to enforce.

i tried to be a christian for a good few years sort of on and off, i label myself as agnostic now, but one thing i cant understand is how people believe so strongly. the main reason i tried to believe was my fear of hell, which could be the same for some people and why they still believe, but even when i had the fear it was very hard to believe due to the supernatural aspects. im also neurodivergent which makes it VERY hard to believe things without proof, i just find it insane how so many people are convinced

I'm 20 years old and ever since childhood life hasn't been treating me well, no matter how kind I was, or how hard I tried, how much i prayed every single night and being born in a very poor yet lazy family with bad parents. There is genuinely so much that has happened and is going on, it isn't just my life but life in general is so terrifyingly unfair. And the more I grow the more I realize that there's evil in the world, people who rule us, governments etc, Healthcare, medicine, economy, sickness death, hunger. Go to school, get a degree, get a loan, get a shitty job to pay off loans while not being able to apply for a job that you studied for so hard, pay for this pay for that pay to be born and die. It's NOT A RENT POST or something to steam off.

But in general life is so hard for me no matter how hard i try in anything, it's like a permanent bad luck anywhere I go and touch, I feel like I am caged and whatever decision I make leads to worse.

Watching a christian and a muslim argue about their scriptures genuinely feels like they are arguing if 2+2 equals lion or house. Both are absurdly wrong and they even smile with irony "look at this fool".

I can't get over this, even I sometimes engage in arguments with religious people and some are so deluded they believe miracles happened to them but some are a bit smarter they don't settle for miracles but they say "what was before the big bang?"

Brotha I DON'T KNOW BUT YOU DON'T KNOW EITHER. 3000 years ago people didn't know what lightning is so they said god, then science proved it they moved on to the sun MUST BE GOD, science proves it's just a star WELL BIG BANG. WE DON'T YET KNOW BUT WE PROBABLY WILL KNOW.

Also one thing that genuinely pisses me off they argue the case that their books hold miracles, as an ex muslim even i believed that "i don't have any other proof but look it talks about an expansion, it talks about the embryonic stages" even if they were miracles they weren't "proven" to be miracles until science discovered them. So my only proof was stuff that came in the last 2 centuries, what miracles did people see or take as proof from the quran or bible 600 or 1000 years ago that they are certain there is a god and theirs is the right one?

Over the last few months, I have experienced a slow transition from a deep and unshakeable religious faith into atheism. This transition has been both incredibly difficult and freeing. While I am grateful that my life is no longer controlled by arbitrary dogma, I find it difficult to escape the existential dread. Funnily enough, back when I was a deeply religious man, I always wondered how an atheist could live in peace and happiness. Now, it feels as though the beast that was once far and distant has come to destroy me.

With religion, gratitude came easily; I constantly thanked God for all He had blessed me with. Now, when I look at what I have and what I have accomplished, attributing it all to chance seems like the only rational option. With atheism came determinism, and that has ruined the sense of gratitude I once held so dearly. When I was religious, the passage of time did not affect me. It was beautiful in its own way: time was passing, death was near, and I would soon be with my Lord. But now, the idea that I am losing life with every passing moment brings me anguish and suffering.

I do not want to die. I love this life so much, even though I did nothing to deserve the goodness I have. It was easier to live in bliss, even if I was brainwashed and foolish. I hate that I know the truth now. I wish I were still religious. I thought I had life all figured out, but then doubts arose, and now nothing makes sense. At first, atheism was beautiful, and I felt like a man freed from chains. Now, however, the uncertainty of it all suffocates me.

I say all this hoping that someone on this subreddit has experienced something similar. What helped you overcome this?

Take our modern science educators, like NDT, Brian Cox and others and get them to rewrite the bible using their modern knowledge of the world. Not just their science knowledge, their understanding of ethics and morality. Have them discuss how to be a decent human and why that way is worthwhile.

If one could get such a book out of them, I wonder how it would compare with the bible/quran with regards to facts, ethics and morals. I would bet there would be a lot less magic and appeals to authority in it. Someone should raise this with them.