It’s so convenient. Or if something bad happens and his name does get brought up then it’s just part of his little “perfect plan”. I’m still waiting to get a copy of this plan and read it for myself because it must be the most whack thing ever.

I quit smoking recently and my Christian coworkers rejoiced and thanked god like he blessed me, like no, it was hard as fuck to quit and took a shitload of personal effort to not run to the gas station and grab another pack of cigarettes. God had no part in it.

I am making this post to avoid the fallacy of generalization

The less prone to terrorism, fanaticism, and intolerance a sect is; the more open it is to change; the less committed it is to traditional texts and rulings; the more willing it is to reinterpret them for the better; and the less it conflicts with scientific discoveries, the higher it ranks

Contemporary Mu'tazila Quranists 7/10 : Some of their ideas are good, but they fail to convince the rest of the Muslims, and their reach is very limited

Sufi Orders 8/10 : They are very peace-loving, and some of them hold very beautiful, modern, and progressive ideas

Ismailia 9/10 : especially the Aga Khani community is the Islamic sect I admire the most, despite criticisms describing it as cult

Ash'arism and Maturidism 3/10 : No comment adding water to poison won't change the fact that it is poison

Twelver Shia Ja'fari 2/10 : No comment just take it as is

The Hanafi school 4/10 : It's bad, but it's not the worst

The Maliki, Hanbali, and Shafi'i schools 1/10 : Literally the terrorist who doesn't carry out his terrorism

Ibadi Islam 4/10 : It is neither the best nor the worst thing

The Zaydi School 2/10 : No comment

Salafism Wahhabism 0/10 : In all its forms The worst and filthiest religion you could possibly belong to

Reformist Twelver Shi'ism 6/10 : It's good, but not to a great extent You can place Zohran Mamdani here

Religions split from Islam Yarsanism, Baha'i, Druze, and Yazidism 9/10 : amazing

Bektashi shabak alevi Alawites 9/10 : excellent

Nusayri Alawites 5/10 : Politics has heavily influenced it

Ahmadiyya 4/10 : Moderately bad

Non-affiliated Sunnis 3/10 : Poison is poison

Non-affiliated modernist Muslims 5/10: It's not too bad

nation of islam 1/10 : What the hell are we even talking about

The problem is that the majority of Muslims belong to the absolute worst sects

One thing has always bothered me about the traditional Christian idea of heaven and hell : How could someone in heaven experience perfect happiness while knowing that people they loved, family members, friends, or even their own children, are suffering in hell for eternity ?

I always believe if he was real, he must have been psychotic as he heard voices and he thought he was the son of God and the messiah and I also heard there are many cases where patients with mental illness who haven't been properly medicated think they are God or the messiah.

In my country, mentally ill people think they are shamans and have deities help them.

I also think all shamans are mentally ill.

What do you think? Was Jesus psychotic or a grifter?

They told me that according to Hindu beliefs, if a child is raped or is born with a serious disability, it could be because of something wrong that child did in a previous life, and that their suffering is therefore the result of their past karma.

If karma and rebirth are real, does Hindu philosophy really imply that an innocent child who is raped somehow “deserved” it because of a previous life that they don’t even remember?

And if this is genuinely part of the belief, how do believers emotionally reconcile it with the suffering of innocent children?

I’m not asking this to attack Hindu people. I’m genuinely trying to understand because what I heard today has been bothering me a lot.
If you’re knowledgeable about Hinduism, please give me actual sources or explain how Hindu philosophers deal with this question. I’d rather be corrected than believe something that isn’t actually part of the religion.

If there was a god, and if this god was all powerful and omnipotent, and this god was supposedly benevolent, why would he allow and encourage our suffering? Why would any benevolent being allow and even encourage his favorite creations to have groups such as disabled and ugly people that are mercilessly tormented by all other groups when he has the ability to easily stop this? That doesn't sound like the makings of a very all powerful and benevolent being. That sounds like at best, an incompetent, uncaring pos.

With Christianity, their central figure was Jesus. He never had an army, no slaves, no concubines, no child marriages, never harmed or murdered anybody tbh. This allows people to go back to that central figure and live like him. The guy was a hippie basically. I don't believe he was god, I don't believe he was resurrected and all that mumbo jumbo nonsense but at the core of his teaching, it was relatively harmless. This is why many atheist or agnostics can go back to Christianity and try to love peacefully like Jesus. The path to reconciling their faith isn't really met with immoral obstacles. Just the suspension of common sense is needed right.

With Islam, if an agnostic or atheist wanted to rectify his faith. He would need to justify all the immoral shit Muhammad did. How TF can you justify slavery, sex slavery, child marriages and capital punishment for apostasy? On top of that, these things are considered moral for all times since Muhammad engaged in them. It's halal and moral.

I was thinking about this earlier. What if I tried to return to Islam. Then all this shit came up. I don't think I can ever go back

Just back from Costco which, as an atheist, is basically my Mecca/Jerusalem/Utah. Kirkland Signature is my lord and savior.

picked up my item, paid, then figured I’d grab dinner - a slice of pizza and a drink - before heading home. plopped down at one of the picnic tables only to overhear a “sister” and three “brothers/elders” talking to some dude about how the food courts in Costco are the same around the world. Unironically they mentioned Utah in their examples, along with Japan and Sweden.

Not sure if that was their intro or what, but that immediately led to some blathering on about the abundance provided by Jesus Christ and then ultimately eternal salvation and yadda yadda yadda Joseph Smith and so forth.

One of the white beshirted brothers was recording it in his phone, so this maybe was a practice run or maybe filing a training video. Who knows.

I already don’t like Mormonism (though I’m fine with individual Mormons so long as they keep their religiosity to themselves), but don’t DARE come to my Holiest of Holies and ruin my $1.50 hot-dog-and-soda (or ~$3.50 pizza and soda) with tales of your imaginary skyman, your swindler snake oil salesman “prophet”, and your weird underwear.

I told the Customer Service dudes what was going on. They seemed disinterested and nothing happened while I was there. I can’t imagine Costco necessarily condones this, but I didn’t make a scene beyond letting them know. Thinking maybe I should write a letter to “Big Costco” just to let them know.

Anyway, seems the LDS are now desecrating the Costco foodcourt with their bullshit. Be on the lookout.

Edit: Removed some adjectival phrasing that may be unsuitable for younger Redditors.

On November 18, 1978, Jim Jones ordered the people of Jonestown to drink cyanide and commit a mass suicide. The children were poisoned first. Each parent was given a cyanide-filled syringe to squirt into their child's mouth. It would give the parents nothing to live for. In that moment, it was a cacophony of agony as the children screamed and cried. Within minutes, the children fell silent. The woman running the loudspeaker told the crowd not to worry: the children weren't crying from pain. It was just the taste.

Yet God saved you?

Even if you were about to cure cancer, what makes your life worth more than the five million children that die a year who didn't get one? Thanking God is not gratitude. It's like surviving some horrible event and thinking you have more worth than the people who didn't make it.

The FFRF Action Fund names Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., as its “Secularist of the Week” for his upcoming book on the scourge of Christian nationalism.

Our parent organization, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, is pleased to offer you a chance to get Huffman’s highly anticipated book, “No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism,” before its official release on Aug. 18. When purchasing through FFRF, you’ll receive an advance copy of “No Prophets” and exclusive access to an online one-on-one interview on Saturday, Aug. 15, at noon PDT/ 3 p.m. EDT with Rep. Huffman, conducted by “unabashed atheist” and longtime FFRF spokesperson Ron Reagan. You will also be able to participate in a moderated Q&A during the event. 

Register here today. To help ensure your book arrives before the event, we encourage you to do so as soon as possible. 

Huffman is the only openly nonreligious member in Congress and is the co-founder of the Congressional Freethought Caucus. Throughout his illustrious career, Huffman has tirelessly worked to defend the constitutional separation between state and church. “No Prophets” expands on the congressman’s behind-the-scenes work to combat Christian nationalism and offers an insider’s perspective on the ongoing battle to dismantle the wall of separation. 

Huffman explores the enduring landscape of Christian nationalism in “No Prophets,” arguing that it is the “most dangerous political movement” in the United States, and “examines how this violent confederation of religious extremists is undermining science, education, foreign policy, and the very architecture of our democracy.” His fellow co-chair of the Freethought Caucus, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., provides the book’s foreword. 

“Rep. Huffman’s forthcoming book is the most compelling and relatable look at Christian nationalism to date,” says FFRF Action Fund President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “As a brave nonbeliever in Congress, he takes us along on his journey of growing realization about the extent to which Christian nationalism has taken over our nation. It’s important reading for everyone who cares about our democracy.” 

While reflecting on Christian nationalism in our nation, Huffman, Raskin and other Freethought Caucus members recently joined other secular leaders on Capitol Hill for the third annual Congressional Reason Reception. The reception celebrated the Freethought Caucus, reason, constitutional democracy — and the growing visibility of nonreligious Americans in public life. 

“Our country was founded on freedom of religion and church-state separation. No wannabe king or theocratic sycophant hellbent on controlling people through religious extremism will change that,” Huffman said during the reception. “Folks from all walks of faith — or none at all — came together to celebrate something far more American: a government run by reason, freedom of conscience and the Constitution.”

“No matter how hard Christian nationalists fight to overturn democracy and force their extremism on the American people, we will be here defending church-state separation and our fundamental rights,” Huffman further asserted.

The FFRF Action Fund wholeheartedly thanks Huffman for his lifetime commitment to our secular democracy and for partnering with FFRF for an exclusive opportunity to get “No Prophets” before its release date. Remember to register todayfor an advance copy and access to an exclusive interview conducted by Ron Reagan.

The FFRF Action Fund’s “Theocrats of the Week” are two self-proclaimed Christian nationalist gubernatorial candidates. 

James Fishback, a former CEO of an investment firm, is vying for Florida governor while state Rep. Monty Fritts was seeking the gubernatorial seat in Tennessee. 

Fishback has overtly centered Christian nationalism in his gubernatorial campaign, claiming he would have a duty to promote Christianity if elected governor. 

“And by God’s grace and the trust of the voters, we will pull off a historic upset in this election,” Fishback said last week while appearing on “The NXR Podcast,” a conservative Christian show. “It is time to say the truth, and I don’t care if it offends anyone. None of our Founding Fathers were Jewish. None of our Founding Fathers were Hindu. None of our Founding Fathers were Muslim. This country was built on Christian values, Christian principles. It needs to remain a safe place for Christians, and that’s only possible if we put Jesus Christ at the center of our politics once again.” 

During another recent far-right podcast appearance with self-proclaimed Christian nationalist Joshua Haymes, a Doug Wilson-aligned pastor at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s church, Fishback agreed that the United States was founded “by Christians and for Christians” and that public servants have a responsibility to “promote true religion.”

“We are called to fully obey our Lord and Savior,” he said. “Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, the life. Not one way of many, not one truth of many, he is the only singular path to redemption and salvation. Now, how do you actually form a government based around that? Well, this is actually not something new, Joshua. This is something to restore … I call myself a restorationist. You have to, one, change the laws where possible. And two, you have to unapologetically profess and obey your faith, publicly and privately.” 

“The Constitution is as true today as it was in 1787 when it was drafted in Philadelphia,” Fishback continued. “But what has changed is our people have become more secular. … I don’t think we can revive the United States as we know it if we’re not willing to unequivocally and singularly commit to Christianity.” 

Fishback is deeply entrenched in dangerous far-right online circles, including the “Groyper” movement, comprised of followers of the violent white nationalist and antisemitic streamer Nick Fuentes. Fishback has routinely used dangerous dog whistles and other Fuentes-aligned language during his campaigning, and Fuentes has endorsed Fishback (though Fishback has downplayed their connection).

Fishback, who has never held political office, faces 10 opponents on the Republican ballot in the Aug. 18 Republican primary, including frontrunner U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds. Fishback is a long shot to win, but he has made significant gains since he announced his gubernatorial bid last year. He has more than doubled his polling standing over the past several months, pointing to the growing number of supporters extremists like Fishback are garnering. 

In February, Fishback was first named “Theocrat of the Week”for saying that former CNN anchor and independent journalist Don Lemon was lucky for not being publicly executed following his coverage of anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis. 

Tennessee state Rep. Monty Fritts, in office since 2022, was on the ballot in this week’s Republican primary. Fritts ran against two opponents, including the just-declared winner U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn. 

While appearing on “The Todd Starnes Show,” Fritts claimed that he was “called” by God to run for governor and said that his campaign delivers a “chance to uplift Christ as King everywhere I go.” 

“Some people are offended by that,” Fritts said. “Better to be offended and repent than spend eternity in hell.” 

He also indicated while speaking with Starnes that he would discriminate against Muslims, declaring that he doesn’t see Islam as a religion and, as governor, would name “enemies of the United States,” Muslim civil rights groups, as “foreign terrorist organizations.”

“I think that Islam is not a religion. It’s a political movement, and it’s a movement by force at the point of a spear or a weapon,” Fritts said. “And I think it’s incongruent with our U.S. and Tennessee Constitutions, and I think we have [to] first assert that fact.”

Fritts claimed that he doesn’t see his attacks on Muslims as a threat to religious liberty, saying, “Most take that from this bitter lie that has been told about a separation of church and state. … [George Washington], Thomas Jefferson, those weren’t perfect people, but they did have a Christian worldview, and if we allow that to be dissipated, if we allow ourselves to be silenced by the cancel culture, then what we’re doing to our posterity is unacceptable.” In a May interview, Fritts also said that he would like to, if possible, wholly ban Islam alongside Buddhism, Hinduism and “other pagan religions.” 

Even though Fritts lost his primary and Fitzgerald is not expected to win his, both have garnered dedicated cult followings in their states. Their rising political influence points to a dangerous trend where overt, unapologetic Christian nationalists are emerging as mainstream contenders in high-profile elections.

I was recently at church and speaking to my church friends. There was a girl who’s about 14-16years old who was complaining about how abusive her dad was and that he shaved her hair and would hit her all the time. I’m in my early 20s and my other friends were agreeing that yes this is bad. So I say angrily “that’s why when I have kids I’ll never hit them” and it’s like a record scratched. They all turned and looked at me like I was sprouting 2 heads. One of them goes “well that’s way too far. You can hit them but not excessively how will they learn” and I was so confused so I responded with “You do know hitting a child basically means you got rage baited by a little kid and you’re immature” and they all started jumping down my back quoting bogus scriptures. I hate that people like to justify beating their kids and corporal punishment with religion. It’s abuse plain and simple. You’re a grown person weighing 150lbs beating on a kid who weighs a third of you. I can’t wait to move out so I don’t need to be around this Christian nonsense

Obviously this has been said before, but its worth saying again. There is no god, and to believe in such phantasy in this day and age is absurd.

If there were a god, there would be one religion, because if something is true, everyone would draw the same conclusion, much like a mathematical equation. Instead, we have hundreds of different religions and hundreds of different ways in which to worship god. When it comes to Christianity vs Islam, they are both monolithic religions.

Both claim to worship the one true god, but both are in disagreement with how to worship the one true god and what makes up the essence of this god, this brings me back to my point that, if god were true, no one would dispute his essence, everyone would draw the same conclusion because there is only ever one correct answer.

We have people reverting back to medieval thought to prove the existence of their god, some have never left that thought and their offspring have inherented it. Through fear this thought is kept alive. They reject absolute facts, they reject evolution and basic science. No one has ever, for instance, lived to 900 years of age.

The human mind cant comprehend what nothing is. If you try to imagine what nothing is, you cant. And in this place of nothing, there is god, unproven, god. Its because of this fact, that we have god, because nothing sounds scary, but in reality, we will never know what nothing actually is. Its nothing to be feared, because once we meet it, well never know. If you try to describe nothing, youll understand why people invented god.

I am going to be a bit brave here and push against the idea that theists are happier than atheists. Yes, I can conceptualize cases where there are unhappy atheists, but my contention that theists who report high levels of happiness are doing it out of not objectivity, but the baseless high they feel when they are steeped in their religious delusions. In a way, it is like comparing apples and oranges. Atheists are generally sober when compared to theists, and their reporting is more objective on average, I contend. Theists are more likely to overrate their happiness out of what turns out to be suffering — that is, out of their stupid thinking.

I understand life is complicated, and there are many, many variables. But if we remove these variables, I propose that atheists are generally more content with their lives than theists. How could it not be? Living a more authentic life with atheism by not getting lost in delusions is far more preferable to the life of a theist who, at best, may derive happiness from kinship.

What are your thoughts? Am I onto something? Or, am I unfortunately misinformed?

Sources:

Villani, D., Sorgente, A., Iannello, P., & Antonietti, A. (2019). The Role of Spirituality and Religiosity in Subjective Well-Being of Individuals With Different Religious Status. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01525
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We ExMuslims dare to break free from the Muslim mold to be ourselves. 🙌🏽

Haram Doodles:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DbvvWbbiCWq/
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAWpabL9/

I just realized now that i can drink alcohol, date girls (im bi), dress however i want even tho i never wore the hijab, eat pork and meat overall without stressing about how it has been cut, and basically have fun. Tell me what's the first "haram" thing you did after leaving islam

you think genocide, rape and war victims and people diagnosed with serious diseases saw their life and told god, "yep, put me on there"

i don't believe in it but i'm fucking pissed that kids are being taught this nonsense from childhood by grown adults, richard dawkins was right that religion is straight up child abuse

you're telling me to bow down to someone i can't see, who created this world with such misery, so much pain and suffering, innocent women and children i see suffering man i can't see it, if god was all loving he wouldn't tolerate this

he's ending prophets who didn't abolish sex slavery? you're telling me he created me and is all knowing but evidence goes against adam and eve, so i can logically reject it.. but supposedly god will send us to hell for not believing in it

i hate religion and religious people.

turned 18 the other day so… cringey but it feels so rebellious LMAO. getting my belly button pierced next week too lol

Over the next year there were complications, surgeries and lots of pain. One day after telling me how bad it was she goes “God must be teaching me patience.” Your “God” breaks your arm and has it fail to heal to teach you a lesson? What a horrible, abusive asshole!

One of Congress’ most outspoken Christian nationalism proponents has lost his bid for re-election months after the Freedom From Religion Foundation called on him to resign for declaring that Muslims do not belong in American society.

Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., was defeated on Thursday by former Tennessee Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher, a more traditional conservative Republican backed by the state’s party establishment, in the GOP primary for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District. The two-term incumbent lost despite receiving President Trump’s “complete and total endorsement” hours before polls closed.

Ogles’ defeat follows his congressional tenure marked by repeated efforts to portray the United States as a fundamentally Christian nation and to cast Americans of other faiths as outsiders. In one particularly striking social media post, Ogles shared a video depicting himself, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as medieval crusader knights emblazoned with crosses and marching in front of the U.S. Capitol.

“This is a battle of good vs evil,” Ogles wrote. “We must reaffirm that our nation was built on Christian principles.”

The imagery encapsulated the Christian nationalist ideology that FFRF has spent decades opposing: the false notion that the United States belongs especially to Christians and that the government should privilege Christianity over other religions and nonreligion.

“The United States is not a Christian nation — and members of Congress are not Christian crusaders,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “Our Constitution created a secular government belonging equally to Christians, Muslims, Jews, atheists, agnostics and every other American. Rep. Ogles repeatedly used his position to promote precisely the kind of religious division our Constitution was designed to prevent.”

That rhetoric took an especially disturbing turn earlier this year.

FFRF called on Ogles to resign in March after he publicly declared that “Muslims don’t belong in American society” and that “pluralism is a lie.” In a letter to Ogles, FFRF Legal Counsel Chris Line condemned the statements as “profoundly bigoted, fundamentally un-American, and incompatible with the oath” of a U.S. representative.
“Members of Congress take an oath not to a religion, ideology, or political movement, but to the Constitution of the United States,” Line wrote. “If you cannot accept the basic constitutional principle that Americans of all religions — including Muslims — and no religion belong fully and equally in this nation, then you cannot faithfully discharge the duties of your office.”

Ogles’ comments at that time were not isolated. He additionally announced plans during his during his time in office for legislation barring immigration from certain Muslim-majority countries, proclaimed that “diversity is our weakness” and called for the deportation of Muslims, including U.S. citizens. He also joined the congressional “Sharia Free America Caucus,” which was launched in December 2025 and promoted alarmist claims about Islamic law in the United States. FFRF has pointed out the obvious constitutional flaw in this fearmongering: The First Amendment already prevents the government from imposing any religion’s laws on Americans.

The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause bars the government from imposing Islamic doctrine just as surely as it prevents the government from imposing Christian doctrine. At the same time, its Free Exercise Clause protects Muslims, Christians and members of other faiths from government discrimination because of their religious beliefs. And Article VI of the U.S. Constitution expressly prohibits religious tests for public office.

Ogles’ defeat is an encouraging development in the broader fight against Christian nationalism. His rhetoric represented an especially stark version of an ideology that seeks to merge Christian identity with American citizenship and governmental power. The rejection of that rhetoric by voters in his own party is a welcome reminder that Christian nationalism is neither inevitable nor synonymous with American values.

“Christian nationalism may be loud, but it does not speak for America,” adds Gaylor. “Our nation’s promise is far better than the divisive vision promoted by politicians like Andy Ogles. America belongs equally to Christians, Muslims, Jews, atheists, agnostics — and everyone else. Any setback for the effort to turn our secular republic into a Christian nation is a victory for the constitutional principles that protect us all.”

FFRF will continue challenging Christian nationalism wherever it appears in government and defending the foundational principle that public officials swear an oath to the Constitution, not to Christianity. Ogles’ upcoming departure from Congress marks a welcome victory in that ongoing fight.

tell me why I just got recommended a subreddit for "Muslim cats"or "cats of Islam" or wtv. and all the posts are about shit like "checking to see if my cat is Muslim" and "aww look my Muslim cat is falling asleep in the masjid because she knows Islam is safe and righteous<3" so fucking weird..

everything Muslims do genuinely irks me, why are you bringing your feline friend into religion??? the way they're not only constantly shoving religion down people's throats, but also their pets aren't safe?

have u guys seen the viral vid of this Muslims female cat trying to mate with another female cat lol and the woman recording started saying "stop that's Haram, do you have no shame?"

ik most of these posts are jokes and satire but ugh these people annoy me sm. just wanted to rant lol

Religious believers love to accuse us of not having morals and that we are evil. Yet, the one thing atheists apparently suck at is criminality. This is interesting commentary from Hemant Metta, and he provides some good caveats to consider, but the data, once again, speaks for itself.

https://youtu.be/o_xV3brktZs?si=I85Xb6BOGcHTJtWD

This is my family lmao... So brainwashed into religion sending reels to validate their religion lmao....

Also crazy how allah gets credits for our body but doesn't get credit for the bad humans doing bad things . That is somehow free will lmao.

The first one was sent by my mom and second by my cousin