It is a constant at this point. He thinks his religion is better, he looks down on other religions especially muslims because they have big families, because they block the streets for namaz and during muharram, he says if their prayer can be heard through loud speaker so should ours (it's like a constant competition), he says having school structures of studying qurans should exist only if an equivalent of that i.e. a hindu school board exists as well. I am myself an atheist but I feel the need to stand my ground because I have researched a fair share of islam. Absolutely cannot stand either but as an Indian he is falling into the trap of what the government is trying to do- create a divide between the two communities by constantly comparing and fear mongering. Hinduism did not consist of such show off acts before but now it seems theres a constant competition.

How do i stand my ground and properly refute his arguments?

Like I have very little knowledge about Christianity in general, I knkw how the split of Catholics and Protestants happened and 30 years of deadly wars and stuff. But I want to know about Jesus was he overall descent Person or just another religion fanatic figure like Mohammad.

Is there any Christian who is now atheist can tell me? Please (I am just digging up and learning history so I was curious.)

In this video—I provide an overview of the Book of Acts and argue the reasons why it can’t be trusted as literal history.

The early church was very divided and in constant fights about the theology of this new religion based on the death of Jesus.

Video Summary: - Acts isn’t eyewitness history—it’s theological propaganda written decades after the events it claims to describe. - The author contradicts Paul’s own letters, especially on key events like the Jerusalem Council. - Miracles and speeches feel scripted, echoing Greek storytelling more than real eyewitness testimony. - The book sanitizes early church conflicts, painting a picture of unity that Paul’s letters directly challenge.

Did you know that the number of authentic hadiths is estimated at 4,400, 3,000 of which were narrated by the two sheikhs, Bukhari and Muslim (without repetition)?

And did you know that the total number of hadiths narrated from the Prophet, according to Muslim scholars, exceeds 100,000, most of which are duplicates. If you remove these, you're left with 28,000 hadiths!

This means that the percentage of authentic hadiths does not exceed 16%.

This means that more than 80% of the hadiths they transmitted from their Prophet are lies and fabrications, by their own admission!

This means that lying and fabricating about Muhammad was like drinking water...

If they fabricated and fabricated 80% of everything we have received about Muhammad, would they be incapable of fabricating and fabricating the remaining 20% ​​and inventing Muhammad from nothing?

Like they say that there’s something called illuminati, now I don’t believe in any satan or god stuff but I just want to be part of some sort of community.

Thing is I don’t have anyone in my life so it’d be nice to be part of some community. Religious people can go to church and they’d be accepted in a community and make friends and get close to people, but for atheist that’s not the option.

I like being anti god so some sort of anti god community would be good for me. I am okay with paying for membership even, the same way they pay tithe in church lol.

I don’t mean to be insensitive but I noticed in a recent video of his that he is quite thin and his speech is slurred.

That has me worried about his health.

Does anyone have any insight into this?

Last week after watching countless videos about our universe and the multiverse, I’ve found myself in a deep existential crisis :/.

I’ve never been religious but I’ve always been spiritually agnostic and believed in the works of Michael Newton about reincarnation(which I don’t necessarily have a reason to throw out the window yet) but relearning about the cyclic universe and the expanding universe and that there are possible “ends” to the universe (not doomsday but like in the way people think the earth is flat and there there are “ends” to the earth) it really makes you wonder where the fuck are we and why? Are we toys? Why can’t we have access to other beings? We really are too smart for our own good and too dumb to know what we even are and I hate it!!

How lucky or u lucky are we to be humans? I look at my cats with pity now :(. Thinking about the universe just makes me think how much more likely it is that there would be nothing after death. We’re like the trees, the plants, just animals and nothing more. We just happen to be here at the right/wrong time stuck here with pain and happiness all for something we do not know. I just don’t know how to deal with the concept of death period and now thinking like this makes it worse.

When God creates doors for Paradise, it means He is unable to control entry and exit except through the use of assistive devices. This is the simplest evidence of human thought.

Doors were invented by humans to prevent strangers or animals from entering, or to maintain privacy. If God uses them, it means that God is a product of human thought.

The Prophet said in a hadith:

I will be the first to knock on the door of Paradise. I will knock on it. Its angel will ask, "Who?" I will say, "I am Muhammad." He will say, "I have been commanded that no one shall enter before you."

Paradise has become a hotel, a concierge, and reservations. Billions of people have been entering for millions of years, and none of them will enter before Muhammad.

Isn't describing Paradise in this manner contemptuous of God and the minds of the listeners?

If you haven't already, I suggest checking out the movie Heretic (2024). I am not a fan of horror movies, but this one is a great watch. It delves more into the creepy aspect rather than you're typical lazy & brain-dead Hollywood jump-scares. As an atheist, this movie scratched an itch. Iykyk.

Please use the spoiler censor if you're looking to comment on the movie so that we don't ruin it for others!

Spoiler comment regarding the movie:
besides the solid observations that Mr. Reed points out regarding the stories of Jesus and other pantheons/religions, one thing I particularly enjoyed was the reversal on our feelings about the 'miracle' of resurrection. Christians paint it in a positive light, but it was the last thing they wanted in the movie lmao

Another movie that involves religion and that I really like is Sunshine (2007). I view that plot as a metaphor for our entire society's history lol.

The Bible verse "Leviticus 18:22 reads as following, (actually text may vary) "A man shall not lie with mankind as he does with woman kind. It is an abomination." It pisses me off so much because, as a queer person, Christians use this to give me and other queers so much shit. It's also very un-christian, because it completely ignores the fact that God loves everyone, no matter what. It is also very frustrating considering the fact that being queer isn't a choice, and when Christians say this to queer people, especially queer Christians, it sends the message that either God hates them, or God make a mistake when creating them, which is just not true. Thankfully, there are many denominations that are LGBTQ friendly, including one of the churches in my town. I just needed to let this out, since this happened to me recently.

Teenage Christian here and I've been starting to doubt and lose faith. I'm incredibly scared of confronting my family about this, can't possibly imagine what they'll think.

i've been called this many times by my friends or others irl and i have no idea what the reddit atheist connotation is so i thought id come to the source and ask 🫡

I'm gunna make this short and sweet, my boyfriend and I have been dating for almost 2 years and I love him a lot but he's recently been becoming very very christian. He's always been christian and I'm totally okay with that, if it makes him happy then I'm happy for him.

When we first started dating I told him I didn't believe in god, I don't want kids, etc etc (the important stuff) but lately he's been talking about god a lot more than normal and kinda shoving it down my throat. Every other conversation is about church or god or how gods amazing and I feel like a bad person for being so over it. God makes me uncomfortable and so does church but he persist to push it on me and tell me "one day you'll see" which feels so condescending. It gets to the point where I don't even want to call him because I know what he will talk about.

I love him so much but it feels like he's changing as a person and its really scary. What if he turns into someone completely different. I don't want to break up, I just want advice on how I can move past this.

I have been thinking about existence, life and death lately. I have been an atheist all of my life I was preaching about my lack of religion in the first grade, I just wanted to share this little thing I wrote recently relating to that. For context super sorry if its kind of difficult to read I am a teenager and have barely dived deep into English Literature but here y’all go!

I sometimes feel envious of those who truly believe in a spiritual figure, going through life with a certainty that there is more to this existence, seems happier. Knowing when your fragile being is deceased someday, there will be another door to open beyond that is comforting. But what is comfort but a mere mirage given to us by our weak brains to comprehend this world? I may have had a lack of spiritual belief before, but I find myself now reinstating my atheist belief even further, confirming more my true absence of religiousness. My cancer diagnosis showed me more, it showed me how uncertain this lifetime is. Cancer let me know how I will never have the opportunity to grasp all the knowledge of this universe that I want to understand so deeply. I want to live so many lifetimes, I want to learn the story of every human there ever was, my worldly desires may run my mortal body but all I have ever wanted was to learn. I know I have grasped so much in my lifetime and the more I learn the more I want to understand. I may find myself hungry for knowledge and giddy for life but I still find the fact that the universe glitched and created humans unfair. We should have never existed; we became a glitch in the system of life. Us humans are conscious for what purpose, other than to suffer at the knowledge of how our lifespans will soon end. My mortal being can never be certain in my inquiries, I am a speck in the order of life, when I walk by someone they see me as a teenage girl with a disability but I am so much more and so much less I am an amalgamation of atoms that have never existed in this arrangement before, I am a freethinker beyond the comprehension of many but I am also just a speck in the grand scheme of the universe my name will not be echoed in billions of years, probably not in 100, I will be known by few and spoken of by less. Yet these feelings and lifetime lead me to think I am much more. I am conscious of the harm caused by humans but stay along for the ride. What for? To learn. Many people need to cope with this existentialism. I am no better, but many don’t just cope but turn away from the actuality entirely leading to much more harm than good. I think believing what you do for your god that you believe is the “right” thing is the most selfish act one could do, the billions of us that have lived before have lived differently and have told a different story yet you believe you are special? In millions of years those people you loathe for nothing but being different from you, will become but one, your molecules will combine into nothing but dust, yet you believe your lifetime is so separate and better. We may not be sure of anything but I know truly the hate that people spread on this planet is ignorant and useless, can people just sit down and think? Has no one thought past the life that has been laid in front of them, maybe that life is better. It's not like I am a truly happy person but what I am certain about is that I am true and I believe that is what life is for not happiness, it’s for seeking truth.

This is just one example of how toxic and harmful religion can be to humanity, making several million people live in a fantasy and become totally detached from reality. The idea that ancient humans co-existed with dinosaurs comes from Young-Earth Creationism, which is a Biblical doctrine supported especially by Evanghelists, which is pure non-sense.

Humans couldnt survive among those giants, since natural selection would simply wipe-out all the human beings in such context. Just imagine Triceratops or Stegosauruses, who where giant herbivores eating all the crops cultivated in order to feed entire villages or towns. And how could humans resist to ferocious carnivores like Trex, Allosaurus, Spinosaurus or Carnotaurus? I remember how a retard from my country told me that humans used to be like 10 meters tall, so they would easily defeat dinosaurs. Unbelievable...

Also, the Earth with life conditions suitable for humans couldnt work for dinosaurs and vice-versa. When dinosaurs walked the Earth, the atmosphere was much richer in oxygen, that being too much for humans to breathe, while dinosaurs couldn't possible live with the life conditions we had 6000 years ago and still have today.

I swear that the world would have been a much better place without religion, since it's brainwashing people into rejecting the reality and denying science, making them living in a fantasy. The worst is that religion is slowly prevents scientific progress to go further, due to the fact that society is more and more brainwashed into rejecting it.

Imagine life without a loving God who cares for humanity.

Unfortunately, the world would be like this:

• Individuals dying of hunger.

• Malignant diseases tormenting people daily until death.

• Children being raped and mutilated without restraint.

• Gangs killing the weak and trafficking their organs.

• Wars, battles, and physical torture among humans for absurd greed.

• Natural phenomena such as earthquakes and floods wreaking havoc without mercy.

Just imagine life without Him...

I know we rag on the Christians here a lot (as is common) but one thing that I find really sad is how believers get the same reward regardless of their "faith investment". Even though some followers give more at the tithing plate, are kinder, pray more or even are genuinely good people, a shitty half assed believer can technically access the same reward according to scripture if their faith is "true" and in the right "place".

I think islam has 7 heavens though? Where each believer is put in a hierarchy of a heaven where the 1st heaven is the best of the best and the 7th heaven is kinda like just like public bathroom when the urge to tinkle really hits.

I am not sure, I am open to scrutiny here if someone can correct me, but it seems like it's all leading you to the same end, even though some people work harder than others on their so called spiritual investment.

The channels I used to watch all stopped posting except this one. It’s pretty disappointing especially given the current climate.

Hello. I'm looking for guests who would be open to discuss their religious views in a podcast setting. I think the world could stand to know more viewpoints from all worldviews This is not a debate. I just want to know what you believe and why. This applies to traditional and non-traditional religious and secular beliefs. Simulation theory, darwinism, creationism, materialism, new age, ect. This will take place on Microsoft Teams as the audio will be recorded. No video portion at this time. If you want to share your view with the world please message me

From what I gather, ‘Jesus died for our sins so we may be forgiven and can enter heaven’. But couldn’t god just forgive sins anyway and let people into heaven. What’s the relevance of Jesus dying in order for Christians to get into heaven?

If you believe that the earth is flat and that it's only 10 thousand years old and that you need to manufacture a biblically prophesied apocalypse to spur the return of a jesus type figure than you have no fucking business being an elected official. Yes, there are people in the US government who are intentionally advancing the rise of global temperatures and the escalation of global conflict because they believe it will bring Jesus's return. Laugh all you want because people like Alex Jones made the topic unserious, but Bohemian Grove is a real thing. It's members participate in the cremation of care ceremony every year because they're actively seeking the end of humanity. Every known member of the Bohemian club is a Christian. Don't even get me started on why Israel is so fucking important to them. Religion is the most destructive force ever invented by humanity. Fuck Religion. Fuck Religion. Fuck Religion.

There are many reasons I think this. One the religion blatantly permits sex slavery or “concubinage” as a morally permissible act by god (Surah 4:24). Which is ironic if god is a moral arbiter for all times. The common excuse from Muslims is well hey it was for that time. I was in a live debating it and the Muslims were seriously asking me why concubinage was wrong or why sex slavery is wrong. These women were captured during war against their own volition. That isn’t necessarily entering into a consenting relationship. Secondly, the women beating that’s permitted in the Quran is equally as problematic. If your wife refuses to have sex with you then you can beat her? In many Muslim countries marital rape isn’t even considered a real thing. This religion is just as immoral as Christianity if not worse. Lastly you just get to kill people because they don’t listen to your “truth” is fucking insane. It’s permitted in the Quran.

This goes for conservatism too, there's a huge growing ideological divide between men and women in Gen Z, in which young men are becoming increasingly more affiliated with conservatism.