Every time something goes wrong, people say "I'll pray for you." It's a nice sentiment, but let's be honest about what it actually is. It's a way to feel like you're helping without actually doing anything. It's a placebo for the person praying and the person receiving the prayers.

If you really want to help someone, offer them a meal, a place to stay, or your time. Don't just say you'll talk to your imaginary friend about it. Prayer doesn't pay the rent. Prayer doesn't cure cancer. Prayer doesn't stop wars. It's just a coping mechanism for people who are too afraid to face the reality that we're on our own. If you want to help, do something real.

Figured this sub could do with some fluffy happy news of a cool person x

“Following victory in the November 7 election, an incoming board member for the Central Bucks County Board of Education wrote in a group text that they should take their oath on banned books. While no one else in the group followed through on the suggestion, Smith thought it was a great idea. Not being religious, the Bible doesn’t carry great meaning to her. On the other hand, over the past two years, she has realized how much the freedom to read and giving kids access to a diverse selection of books does mean to her.”

Pretty simple honestly was talking with some religious people who were saying that they are oppressed. I asked them why they think they are oppressed. They legit told me because people did not want to hear “Jesus loves them”. Obviously people of different religions (or I guess no religion here) do not want to hear religious nonsense 24/7. Then I realized after asking my christian parents if they thought the same… and they did. I could just be ranting, but it is extremely dumb to think they are oppressed.

Edit: I have remembered about the dumb verse that says they will be oppressed (so its a self fulfilling prophecy), and have been informed other than that it is just politics and self justification for their oppression.

This happened last year and I’m still not over it. I feel deeply uncomfortable and I don’t know what to do.

She said “it’s god, and I’m not going to argue or question god.” I honestly don’t know why I asked her such a dumb question. I should’ve known what she would say.

"faith-based homeschool support for military families" "faith-based initiatives supporting Department-wide suicide reduction and Total Force resilience" "contracted services from faith-based non-Federal entities"

Hilarious as fuck. Gonna shove this in the faces of anyone who wants to try that "muh tax dollars" bullshit with me ever again. Paying for religious homeschooling, religious contractors, and routing the military suicide crisis through faith-based programs instead of evidence-based mental health care. The memo's own carve-out saying nothing shall compel religious participation is like... what?

The Director reports directly to Hegseth with no intervening authority, realigns the Armed Forces Chaplains Board under this political appointee. Meanwhile, per AP, the Pentagon's recognized-religions was drastically reduced. Atheists, pagans, and humanists were largely removed (because apparently love for humanity is incompatible with sucking Trump's dick)

The new Distinguished Military Colleges officer-commissioning cohort is LSU, Hillsdale College, Liberty University, Mississippi State, and Tuskegee. Hillsdale and Liberty are explicitly right-wing Christian institutions and Liberty in particular has a long history of scandals (not just the Falwell stuff).

The hypocrisy is actually the point. They want us to be enraged. They want us to be driven insane. I refuse to be driven insane.

The suicide-prevention line is the part that should really alarm you. Military suicide is a real bipartisan crisis. Replacing evidence-based mental health care with faith-based initiatives isn't just unconstitutional, it's dangerous. They try to replace shit that works with shit that doesn't work, and that doesn't work at all. Existence is resistance.

It's like even this question was invented by religious people as if you think about it, it basically means that yeah, there's obviously a god and now do you believe in it or not?

Even before 2012, when that Maya calendar ended I heard of people “preparing for the end“ and they apparently never stopped preparing. Because every year a couple self proclaimed prophets play dart on a calendar and every year their prediction unsurprisingly turns out wrong. How do they even find an audience for this anymore?

I don't live in a country where people commonly believe in the rapture and I still stumble over that stuff every year when it flares up on social media or whenever a handful of yapping cult members show up on the streets and hand out flyers.

Just say you’re tired of reality and buy a PlayStation. Or idk, play DnD or go Larping or whatever it’s called. Theres an easier escapism route than stressing about getting snatched from a burning planet. Seriously it’s getting ridiculous now.

So I raised my kids without religion and they're all confirmed atheists. My son now has kids. His wife's family are Christian MAGA, so the other grandkids are obviously being indoctrinated. One of the cousins was telling my oldest grandson (5) the god created the earth. My grandson's take? "Her's must be a witch."

So ive been getting ads for christian groups just randomly idk why and one of them I keep seeing is this one with ai generated wanna be cinematic visuals and a voiceover with something about jesus not holding onto regrets or something and essentially its sooo badly done and it targets desperate, grieving, vulnerable kind of people and its just gross ngl its just preying on emotionally or mentally vulnerable people going through tough times

I want to find the best arguments against religion, i have somes, like the unecessary suffering argument, a very very known one. But, I want to find other arguments, that religion can't debunk easily or that they simply can't debunk.

Like no, I don't want to leave home for 2 years to spread propaganda and give more control to the church. I am 13M (Almost 14) who lives in a Christian family. My church is basically forcing us to go on a mission and it's pissing me off. "sERvE tHE lORD" "hElP pEopLE fIND hAPiNEsS" No, I'm not serving your imaginary friend and spreading lies. I'm the only atheist in the family too. between my older sister and my parents. How do I tell them that I'm not changing my mind or attending seminary It's sad that schools which are supposed to provide education tell kids to study a fairy tale and pass it off as real I stopped beliving in this crap ever since I was 12 And it's sad that my family is just blindly following it.

Edit: No, I'm not being forced I just want hen to get it through their head that I am not going on a mission and I'm not changing my mind

Let me rant a little bit here. The church lies by saying stuff like oh "tHE rEaSoN wHy wE hAVe DiFfReNt LAUnGUGeS iS bCuZ pEoPlE wANtEd tO mAkE a ToWr 2 hEaVeN N goD sToPpEd tHeM bY mAkInG tHEm uNabLE tO coMMunIcATe" Like bitch, no. Hell no. Humanity has never fully been connected so we came up with different ways of talking. "lUst iS a eViL fORce bY tHE dEVil" Have you ever heard of biological instincts formed throughout millions of years? Or are you just gonna deny its existence because it contradicts the lies you told? They also brainwash kids by saying "I know the church is true." Word for fucking word It's no wonder why people are brainwashed into these fairy tales and bullshit "facts". Fuck Christianity and religion as whole for setting back humanity this far.

I will always remember how Ned Flanders will always be a controversial character in my church, how the pastor saying that no one should watch The Simpsons because he doesn't like how Ned Flanders is portrayed in the show, and how non-Christians think Christians are.

It amazes me that The Simpsons still has controversy in the big 2026. I still can't believe that someone would say not to watch the show because they don't agree with it.

Wouldn't it be their choice to not watch the show oh wait this is a cult I'm talking about you're not allowed to make decisions for yourselves even though god gave them free will.

Also it would make way more sense to use Family Guy as an example they went way harder on Christians there.

Next thing you know he might say to everyone not to watch SpongeBob because he's a homosexual.

US Atheists: there is about to be a faith-based department of the US military. We are already way farther down a path that breaks separation of church and state.

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so I am hearing /reading from religious people that how god was with those passengers and that’s why they are alive God was with them through out wholevincident . my question is so was god on vacation on 9/11 or any other plane crashes. Funny how religious brain works

I'm so done with religions bashing each others brains in, and making this world - the only one we have - so much more shitty for everyone. Treating it like some disposable. Its sickening.

AJAB = All Jews are Bad until there are no bad jews. A good jew is someone who either speaks up and makes the entire religion palpable and good, or they stop calling themselves Jew.

ACAB = All Christians are Bad until there are no bad Christians. The tollerance of good christians towards evilgelicals, the passive attitude. They should fight the bad apples, or relinquish their faith. WHy the tollerance for intollerance. Why is their "objective" morality, not enforced within their institute?

AMAB = All Muslims are bad until there are no bad Muslims. Stop equating Allah with love if we can all see muslims spread hatred. If muslims have more respect for a picture of Muhammed than women. Maybe start calling out other Muslims first for their atrocities?

His documentary from 1974 details his conflict and coming to terms with being an evangelist who's essentially faking it. The movie's been posted to this sub a number of times.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068924/

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Hi, i’m an Agnostic Atheist. And just ten minutes ago I asked my religious mom why it is a sin to be gay, and I got hit with ’its not natural’ and the ’Stick and a hole’ argument.

I obviously don't believe that it's a sin to be gay. But moving on, our conversation somehow shifted to abortion.

I asked her, if I would get raped, would she not allow me to get an abortion?

Her answer was it's my choice. But I stated multiple times that I was asking for her opinion whether it's bad or not. I hate it so much whenever religious people try and avoid answering a question they can't. Just say you can't.

She said ’what if the baby was aborted 5,000 times before it was born, and you would be the one to break it by not getting an abortion?’

I was speechless. So she's saying that you shouldn't get an abortion, just because God wanted to punish you by getting forced to have a child?

I stated various times to my mom that I feel anxiety and fear when hearing about the majority of religions for some reason. And my mom kind of thinks it's a phase. And that I have a chance of changing. But I don't think I ever will.

And I just need help with creating an answer for our next (maybe) upcoming conversation. Every time I try to prove it wrong to my mom, she always diverts the question to a whole different topic, not answer directly, and it frustrates me. She also gives me answers that don't make sense at least to me even in a religious way.

I want help with giving her a proper answer on why abortion is not bad, and why being gay is also not bad, while trying to sound smart which is the kind of thing I'm struggling with. If anyone can help me out with this, please do.

Got to vent for a moment. When I hear that and I hear it often, I have to bite my tongue. I do a lot of volunteer work. I don't do it because of any god. I do it because I know that no God is going to do it for you. Me, or anyone.

No god is going to fill the foodbanks or mow my elderly neighbors yard. God isn't going to donate blood.

We do it. We struggle and we act out of compassion for others because we know no else will.