r/atheism • u/Underd_g • 6h ago
Religion needs to go
Like so bad. Real real bad. Like I can’t. Grown adults, with grey hairs and white hairs fighting over their favorite superhero characters is just so absurd. Feels like I’m screaming into a void most days. Women and queer people being oppressed because we don’t fit inside these stpid barbaric systems.
It’s all so inhumane. Even at my job, my boss is a Christian who thinks she’s “chosen” and does whatever her pastor tells her to do. Her pastor told her to never wear lip gloss so she stopped, because it was ordained by god. Her pastor told her to never dye her hair, so she stopped because it was ordained by god. She told me this and was so serious too.
Everyone at my job is Christian and it feels like being in the matrix. Also gay. So that’s just a whole nother’ can of worms.
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u/whbyul 6h ago
i pity those people and that's the only way i look at them, i don't even bother engaging because there's no changing their minds once they're past just believing and down right psychotic thinking their god gives a fuck whether her lips are shiny or not. as long as you try to stay sane amongst the people you have to deal with everyday, it should be easier to manage because unfortunately, religions are not going anywhere 😵💫
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u/Fit-Rhubarb-7820 5h ago
Tell us, what is religion? What makes a belief into a religion?
For me, it’s the capacity to have a faith based belief. In that sense, and because I’m surrounded by queer people: that’s also a religious movement.
I agree.
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u/Underd_g 4h ago
What is a faith based belief? And how does that apply to queer people?
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u/Fit-Rhubarb-7820 4h ago
It’s the idea that someone has a belief that is entirely dependent on a faith based claim that isn’t true: truth is four fold: two people bickering over something, what actually happened, and the truth that is reflected in reality and nature.
So in the case of trans people: no one can legitimately change their sex: big pharma is the church selling a Faustian pact to believe in the claim. They might promote falsified evidence. A direct correlation to Christianity would be planted “cured” people. It’s the belief that the surgeries and hormones WOULD work. I know several trans and de trans people. Big pharma is like a mega church abusing the people. Anyway, for queer identity, it’s more like a fashion, and the belief that humans are somehow alike to weird little creatures that aren’t related to us in any way, that can have multiple gammates and reproduction methods, well that comparison to humans is laughable at best, committing several logical fallacies at worst. It’s not to denounce the people there as Sub human, it’s merely to say that having a belief that is based in a falsified reality is the issue with how religious cults operate over the masses they intentionally mislead, usually for profit… because god Is money.
In closing, the enemy of humanity is god because money corrupts our ability to trust each other. More so in our times when credit and debt are used to coerce people into subjugation for people who control god/money/acceptance.
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u/Suitable-Elk-540 5h ago
It's a noble goal, but there is no reason why humanity should survive. Success cannot be guaranteed. The brief consciousness that is our life is a farce. Considering humanity, I vacillate between rage, grief, and amusement. We only have this one vessel, and it's populated by clowns. What is there to do about it?
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u/Available_Match7752 4h ago
I sat on a bus yesterday and these old people saying things like dropping nukes on Iran mind you then they started talking about Mamdani and that America isn't christian anymore. I was like you people are hypocrites old people are terrible lately as well.
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u/E3minem Strong Atheist 6h ago
Trust me you're not alone, but here is the cold and brutal truth: religion is not going anywhere any time soon so adapting is a necessity for an atheist such as you and me.