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.

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.

It irritated me so much! At the protest today in my small town (I'm in the US) one of the speakers, maybe the main speaker, was going on and on about "The best thing we can do is pray. We need to just pray." etc etc.

This sounds like giving up, rolling over and saying "All is lost." It really annoyed me.

On top of that, I ran into a friend I there who reacted badly when I said I hated that speech for that reason. This friend started going on about how studies several years ago found the efficacy of prayer.* I was just like, UGH!

It's like, okay, if you are ever falsely imprisoned and then put in solitary confinement, okay, I can understand that reciting poetry or praying could be good ways to prevent your mind from falling apart. But are we so willing to give up already??? Ugh.

Help me feel more hopeful please

* Yeah, I looked up that study, which was concluded in 2006. You will not be surprised to hear that they found no effect on the patients from the prayer, except (ha!) that the patients who knew they were being prayed for had a small but statistically significant higher rate of complications after surgery.

Long story short my mom forces me to go to church. I hate it and don't like doing it, so i asked her to let me stay home. She got mad at me and said, "you're only 14 so you cant be disrespected" after i pointed that she was being rude. She, like other Christians, refused to have a logical argument.

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'll start,

When I was in primary school, it was an extremely religious catholic one. They taught us the earth was created 6000 years ago, and that if we didn't believe in god, we'd go straight to hell. One time I was visiting a church in Italy with my family and started praying, this was when I was about 6. My father asked what I was doing, and I told him I was praying, and he stood there for a minute, confused, before telling me god wasn't real. And, being a six year old at the time, I just believed everything he said, and I've been an atheist ever since.

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 feel like ALL religious people think that those who don't believe in God have chosen not to and for me it couldn't be farther from my experience.

I remember being a child and just trying not to hold my laugh when my teacher said that women came out of a rib or something. Then as a teen I tried to get into it just to see why the hell so many people believed and I just couldn't understand why. I gave up after I told my religious friends I felt like I needed some kind of proof and they said I was yet to feel His 'presence', I just needed to keep going.

It's like a part of who I am, I will never bring myself to believe even if I read the whole Bible and even if I need to get out of a bad situation, I will never turn to God because my brain has never even considered there to be one.

I know this comes from the lack of proof of God's existence but people take atheism as a choice which I feel like it's a completely wrong interpretation of it. I have the same opinion about people who were religious and then turned atheists. To me they just discovered themselves, or am I wrong? Feel free to comment

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.

This is a 2009 debate with Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens arguing against the notion that “The Catholic Church is a Force for Good.”

I highly recommend watching it in its entirety as many of its points still ring true today.

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.

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?

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.)

Religion justifies homophobia, racism, colonialism, patriarchy and xenophobia but it’s the one thing we can’t question. Until we let go of these ancient beliefs that keep us divided we will never see humanity’s full potential. Ignorance is the catalyst of social stagnation

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.

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.

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?

Hi guys. I've been working at my current place of employment for a few years now and all in all it's a great place to work. However, the overwhelming majority of my workmates are people of various faiths, and as the only atheist, I am the sole rational employee on the team.

This has little to no practical impact on day to day operations as even a trained monkey can perform simple work tasks (which is what we are when you get down to it, lol). However, the other day at lunch I approached the table where my peers were sitting and heard them discussing God and the topic of religion.

My new Christian workmate invited me to sit down, but then everyone else started to chuckle at me. My new workmate asked what was so funny to which one of the other guys said, "We're discussing religion, but X doesn't even have a religion."

It wasn't meant in a mean way, no one was saying I couldn't sit down or anything. In fact I actually agree with the statement. As an atheist I consider myself irreligious. But the fact didn't help me feel any less singled out and persecuted for my...

You may wonder why I didn't finish that last sentence. Well this is where the story continues. After sleeping on it a few days I decided to go speak with HR. HR lady, it turns out, believe in God too, but she is otherwise a clear headed and professional individual, or so I thought.

When I told HR what had happened and explained to her how I felt, she seemed to understand I was saying some form of discrimination had taken place. But when she called it "religious discrimination" I got uneasy and had to correct her. No, as an atheist I'm not religious, even if I've been persecuted for my "beliefs", it is not "religous persecution".

HR was kind of baffled? And after some back and forth told me she would do a company-wide brief of kindness and tolerance in the workplace. Whatever. It's not the issue.

What I'd like to know is, how do you guys communicate your... "you know what", with people effectivly? I feel like there is a hole in my vocabulary and that my language has been hijacked by millenia of faith based tradition. I'm not religious, I don't have faith, I do not follow "beliefs", and I resent that I have a world view. So what words do you use? Do you avoid speaking about it entirely? Do you suffer in silence? How does "atheist convictions" sound? A little dogmatic imo but acceptably accurate?

Help appreciated.

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.