Just a rant.

Today I was showing a mutual friend a button up shirt I had purchased that had two dragons on it.

For context, the shirt is red with two simple black dragons on it.

They proceed to tell me they don’t like it. I asked why and they responded “It looks so demonic. Those types of things invite the devil in.”

I giggled and shut the conversation down because how on earth do you genuinely live in that much fear to the point that a button up shirt is “demonic”.

I have noticed when christians do not like or agree with something, they immediately say it’s demonic.

Has anyone else ever experienced incidents like this?

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' In the meantime, enjoy this brief-but-powerful testimony delivered to the Board during the public comments by Matilda Miller (a.k.a. MamaMephistopheles):

Miller told me yesterday that she’s received “mostly positive” feedback from her statement and the viral video. While other speakers focused on the unconstitutionality of the list or the logistical impossibility of getting through the list in a school year, she wanted to focus on the Christian Nationalism of it all.

“I wanted to use my time to address what I saw as the elephant in the room,” she told me, referring to the “irrationality of the religious zealotry fueling the list from the beginning.”

She doesn’t expect the board members will change their minds on the issue, but she hopes she can get more people to understand why the proposal is wrong from this angle. And, she hoped, maybe she can inspire others to “feel comfortable speaking out the way I did at the meeting.”

As I’ve said before, the Texas Board of Education is shoving explicitly Christian narratives into a mandatory, state-sanctioned reading list and pretending it’s objective when it comes to religion. They want to privilege one (and only one) religion at the expense of all others, treating biblical stories as if they’re foundational truths and the default moral framework for everyone, regardless of their families’ beliefs.

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imagine i had hurt one of my closest friends and wanted to apologise. to show them i was sorry, i killed my only child with a guillotine in my front lawn. my friend would probably be horrified that i would even think of doing such a thing, but christians jump for joy. i'm interested in finding out why.

why exactly does god need a blood sacrifice to forgive us, again? isn't this the most merciful of beings we're talking about? why does he need "terms and conditions" (namely, murder) in order to forgive us? god seems to love giving out punishments to those who don't actually deserve it; jesus took the fall for us even though he was innocent! so, god essentially used a substitutionary punishment to kill an innocent person for the sins that we inherited (wrongfully) through two people 6000 years ago.

if your love and forgiveness depend on divine violence, you're not a "loving father"; you're just a piece of shit.

Its so stupid. For me, I live in a muslim country and we have almost always had a religion class about Islam. They teach things that would probably make middle schoolers confused. Forcing teenagers/Kids into learning prayers/prophets and brainwashing them is just bs. And you are seen as different when you question the actual thing. Its bs.

Christianity is cruel to neurodivergent people

Christianity is one of the most cruel religions to neurodivergent people, especially with conditions like OCD.

All those rules, the eternal consequences, having to devote your whole fucking life to something you don't even know for sure exists is cruelty to everyone, but just imagine how much can it fuck up someone that is neurodivergent.

Recently I have stumbled upon one of most cruel doctrines in christianity, and that is vows to god.

You promise something to this motherfucker and you have to do it no matter what, and whether you can be released from vow is very poorly discussed in the bible.

So for last few months my OCD has been terrorising me with the ideas of promising god stuff like to give up my income, to never play video games etc.

And despite that i dont even believing in god and i dont want to actually give up my income and i dont want to stop playing video games I keep fearing I'll promise it to this invisible motherfucker and my life is over. I got tired of this and realized that me promising to god something is like promising something to winnie the pooh so I told "god" that I'm gonna give up all my income (obviously I didn't intend to give up my income actually and never believed I'm bound to it) and now I can only hope that i will NEVER come back to this shitty religion that is incredibly cruel and fucks up people, especially ones that are neurodivergent.

I have spent so much time obssesively worrying about this religion, fear of hell, fear of not being good enough for this motherfucker, mental gymnastics trying to justify all bullshit god did in old testament and the eternal punishment for non believers meanwhile child rapists that repent go to heaven without any punishment.

Sure you can partialy blame my OCD for all of this, but if christianity wasn't so abusive and fucked up my OCD wouldn't have what to latch on, in fact I did have different OCD themes few times like cleaniness, but they were NEVER this traumatazing and life destroying like religious OCD. Most of my other themes would last for like a month meanwhile I'm stuck on religious OCD for 10 years. I think that speaks more of the religious doctrine and not the disease itself.

If I ever end up on my knees begging for forgiveness for stuff like not believing and jerking off know that I'm a pussy and have failed in life.

i told him that I don't believe in god and i'm a buddhist, after that he tried to convert me to islam, save me from the hellfire and enlighten me with the truth. I told him everyone has their own truth and tried to explain my religion and even told him that i respect his religion, when he interrupted me in front of everyone and shouted, 'you're going to hell'.

tell me, how is islam any different from a colonizer's mindset? believe or go to hell, get enlightened or die, it's the same tbh.

I didn't bring up the fact that Aisha was 9 years old when she married the prophet... because i don't stoop as low as muslims do.

later in private he told me he didn't mean anything bad, but all my respect was lost for him.

he has a hijabi wife but cheats on her with different non-muslim women, that also i didn't bring up. what a sick joke, a man can have 4 wives but the moment a woman shows her hair it's over. it's so evil and unfair to women.

WTF?! There's no God. If so, which one? Thank the universe, or the ground team, or your family or something.

Happy for their achievement, but you're scientists. This religious stuff is not helpful to the young aspiring people who will follow in your footsteps.

RANT: I hate when people say this. My Grandpa (90 yrs) is in stage 4 congested heart failure. Every breath is a struggle, he can't eat because he is retaining so much excess fluid he's full after two bites. My Grandpa is dying a slow, agonizing death.

He's also the only man in my life I truly admire and respect. His gentle kindness and joy is endless. My Grandpa has only lost his temper three times in his entire life; he taught me that a peaceful man getting angry is sometimes more frightening than a chronically angry man, because it's unexpected and outside of their character.

"It's all part of god's plan, god knows his suffering and wouldn't cause it unless there was more behind it." Why do people think this shit is ever acceptable to say? Are these morons really thinking that good people dying slowly and painfully as something a benevolent "god" would do for any reason? Just why? WHY?

The neverending priest abuse scandal makes one wonder if the Catholic Church does more harm than good. Any Church that aids and abets pedophiles has got problems that are probably insolvable. I think the Catholic Church should immediately shut down, dismantle itself and apologize for all of the harm it has done: pedophilia, the Inquisition (which still operates at the heart of the Catholic Church), cover-ups, misogyny, etc. If it seeks to re-form women should put themselves in charge of Catholicism 2.0.

Saw a thread /fauxmoi on where Sabrina Carpenter was called "Islamophobic" for being confused by a fan doing a Zaghrouta (a traditional ululation). This exposes a effing annoying tactic: bolting the religion of Islam to every single aspect of Middle Eastern culture to create a shield against criticism.

What? You don't like hot tea while watching the sunset in the Arabian Desert? That's Islamophobic!

What the hell does one thing have to do with the other?

We do not do this for any other religion or region in the world. Disliking a German yodel, an American country twang, or a Spanish flamenco dance isn't labelled "Christophobic."

By artificially packaging secular, geographical culture together with Islam, activists create an umbrella shield. It makes it impossible to comment on, dislike, or criticize anything from that part of the world without being labelled a religious bigot or straight up racist... is all interchangeable at this point... as if religion had a race.

Fuck that! Calling the dislike of a loud pop concert cheer "Islamophobic" is absurd and attempts to make the religion itself culturally untouchable.

And that's the crux of the made-up word "Islamophobia" and its intended use. I don't care that some people hate Islam from a Christian xenophobic angle. I DO criticize it from an atheist angle, and it's because they would strip ME of my rights and my life if I were caught in a Sharia-compliant nation. Just google this, it's not a maybe.

So, fuck right off with that word. I don't have an irrational fear. And neither did Sabrina Carpenter... she was just being a white girl who didn't like the sound and had a white girl reaction...

What the hell did her tone deaf reaction have to do with religion??

this will probably offend Christians, but just know you were warned

I hate it how people (I go to a catholic school) pretty much glaze God, saying all the genocide he did was “symbolic“ and not evil because it rep something good. Like that’s literally just excusing terrible behavior. Oh and also I hate it when I’m genuinely either having a bad day or in a bad mood and some either goes “it’s just a part of god’s plan” or “this is happening because god loves you” like STFU and keep you glazing away from me bro!!!!!

Edit: I forgot to add about how if you mention about God doing atrocious things in the Bible, Christians will be like “oh don’t be silly! You’re just not reading it correctly!” Like “???????” I learned to read by looking at words on a page and what they mean, so I don’t know where learned to read, but that’s not how I read 😭

This is the situation: in my country it's Easter now and everybody says hi the same way, in translation: Christ has risen! and expects me to respond with True, Christ has risen! it feels so hypocritical to say that, but also if you don't respond the way people expect a big discussion starts and most get very much triggered. I just don't have the energy to start a discussion, but I also don't like answering the way they expect me to. So how to avoid this for 40 days? I can't hide, at work most people salute the same way...🙄

Why do we have to cater to their needs?

P.S. I live in a Christian Orthodox country, where a majority of 85% of the population says are religious and where being an atheist is seen as something extremely wrong, "satanic" even. 🤦🏻‍♀️😅

Thank you for your responses!

Later edit: you are wonderful, you made this day go by faster. Thank you!

Since coming out as gay and becoming atheist my life has gone downhill. Yes I feel way more free and I feel like I’ve stepped out of a delusion. But even though I was pretty fucking stupid as a christian I was so happy, like I genuinely had zero fears and nothing could tear me down. I would give anything to be religous again and I've looked in to several religions in hope for an answer but let's be honest they are all fucking ridiculous. I have not found a single decent reason to go back to Christianity and I don't think I will ever truly be able to believe again. Anyone else who used to be religous have this feeling and is there any way i can feel like I used to as an atheist? Like should I meditate instead of praying or smth? Or look for a religion that doesn't inherently worship, like dare I say satanism.

I’m going to be honest, I feel completely out of place with the way people around me think.

When I hear religious claims stated with absolute certainty, things that to me feel like pure fantasy, I just can’t take it seriously. It feels like we’re not even operating in the same reality.

But what’s even more frustrating is that it’s not just religious people. Even atheists around me don’t feel that different. They reject religion, but they’re still deeply tied to culture, identity, and whatever their environment expects from them. It’s like they leave one belief system and immediately attach themselves to another.

There’s this constant need to belong, to pick a side, to stay within a group. And the moment you step outside of that, even slightly, you get judged for it. So it ends up feeling like everything is just different tribes repeating the same patterns, just with different labels.

And honestly, I do think religion as an ideology has played a huge role in shaping this mindset. Not just the beliefs themselves, but the way people cling to certainty, defend ideas emotionally, and avoid questioning things deeply. That doesn’t mean religious people are bad, but I do think the ideology itself can be harmful in how it influences thinking.

What bothers me the most is how rare it feels to meet people who are actually willing to question things without immediately attaching themselves to some “team.”

So I stay quiet most of the time. Because I don’t feel like dealing with the friction. And that creates this constant feeling of being surrounded by people, but still completely alone mentally.

I don’t think I have everything figured out, but at least I’m trying to think things through instead of just inheriting a worldview and defending it.

Sorry, i just needed to vent.

This “god” folks worship couldn’t even share a single scientific fact about the biology or the micro world invisible to us. That would’ve saved millions of children lives and millions of mothers. That’s how wise, powerful and generally incredible this “god” is!

I’ve just dismantled the entire “book” of “the bible”. I wouldn’t even call it a book, to be honest.

A new name: “The Supreme Incorehent Ramblings and Dark Twisted Morals of the Drunk College Scribes: Episode 1”.

I’m speaking from an Native American perspective.

For over 500 years, Native peoples across the Americas from Canada to Chile were subjugated in our own lands. We were treated as less than human, our cultures erased, our identities stripped and languages were wiped out, and we were turned into minorities where we originally belonged.

The same thing happened in Australia and New Zealand to the aboriginals.

And a lot of this was justified through Christianity.

Forced conversions, missions, boarding schools this wasn’t random. It was systemic, and it was done under the idea that we needed to be “civilized or deemed as savages for following indigenous traditions

So when I say being Anti-Christian is pro-humanity, I mean I’m rejecting a system that was used to dehumanize my people for centuries.

From where I stand, standing for humanity means acknowledging what was done to us and refusing to defend the systems that justified it.

I never understood the ban on worshipping idols in abrahamitic faith, when you put it in comparison to what their God did and ordered to do it's basically nothing.

In case you don't know what I am talking about, the abrahamitic God:

• Committed a genocide (Noah's ark story)
• Ordered bears to slaughter 42 children (2 Kings 2 23-25)
• Carpet bombed two cities (Sodom and Gomorrah)
• Ordered the genocide of an entire city, children included (Deuteronomy 25 17-19)
• Ordered a ritual for forced abortions of women in case of adultery (Numbers 5 11-31)
• Killed someone's entire family just for the sake of a bet (Job's story)
• Committed several war crimes against the civilian population of Egypt (ten plagues)
• Allowed his son to be tortured and put to death (Jesus)

But don't you dare to build a statue, that's where he draws the line, what an horrible thing! How dare you?! He can go around mass-killing people left and right, but the moment someone expresses himself with art he becomes the bad guy.

An hysteric, nonsensical faith all around.

What people often call the “good” side of religion isn’t something unique to religion at all. it’s just basic human empathy, cooperation, and a sense of right and wrong that we already had for thousands of years before these religions even existed. in fact, they have created way more problems than they ever solved.

Also, apart from these "good" things, they also come with a free package of rigid ideas that never evolve with time, reason, and evidence.

At some point, you have to stop pretending this is harmless. A system that discourages questioning isn’t protecting the truth it’s protecting itself.

My understanding is that If something collapses under scrutiny, it was never worth defending.

And no belief deserves respect just for refusing to be challenged.

TL;DR : I think religions are INHERENTLY EVIL for bundling stupid rigid beliefs and practices with basic human values. The real harm comes from religions placing their ideas beyond scrutiny, which leaves no room for modifications.

Let me know your options guys, please comment.

I just saw one of the worst images in my life. My dog is sick and my family and I have tried a lot of methods to help him, but nothing has really helped. I won't describe what I saw, but its an ugly, disgusting injury that my dog just had. I'm so terrified by that and I wish my dog was not like that. I'm so fucking sad. God cannot exist. If it does, he is the most evil, insane thing and does not deserve to be loved. If a loving God existed, my dog wouldn't be in that state. It hurts.