Atheism
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Statement of Purpose
- This is a support and conversation community for people who don't believe in gods.
- Superstition hucksters have no reason to subscribe or post here at all.
- If you are looking to debate or proselytize, options will be linked lower in the sidebar.
Acceptable
- Honest questions or conversations.
- Discussions on parenting or advice.
- Struggles, frustrations, coming out.
- Atheist memes. We can have fun!
- News headlines relevant to atheism.
Unacceptable
Depending on severity, you might be warned before adverse action is taken.
- Anything against site rules.
- Illegal and/or NSFW material.
- Troll posts and comments. There will be no attempt to explain what that means.
- Leading questions, agenda pushing, or disingenuous attempts to bait members.
- Personal attacks or flaming.
Inadvisable
- Self promotion or upvote farming.
- Excessive shitposting or off-topic discussion.
Application of warnings or bans will be subject to moderator discretion. Feel free to appeal. If changes to the guidelines are necessary, they will be adjusted.
If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathizer or a resemblant of a group that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of any other group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you you will be banned on sight.
Provable means able to provide proof to the moderation, and, if necessary, to the community.
~ /c/nostupidquestions
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Connect with Atheists
- Matrix: #atheism:envs.net
Help and Support Links
- Freedom From Religion Foundation
- The Secular Therapy Project
- Secular Students Alliance
- Black Nonbelievers
- The Clergy Project
- Atheist Alliance International
- Sunday Assembly
- Atheist Ireland
- Atheism UK
- Atheists United
Streaming Media
This is mostly YouTube at the moment. Podcasts and similar media - especially on federated platforms - may also feature here.
- Atheist Debates - Matt Dillahunty
- Rationality Rules
- Friendly Atheist
- Making Sense with Sam Harris
- Cosmic Skeptic
- Genetically Modified Skeptic
- Street Epistemology
- Armored Skeptic
- NonStampCollector
Orgs, Blogs, Zines
- Center for Inquiry
- American Atheists
- Humanists International
- Atheist Republic
- The Brights
- The Angry Atheist
- History for Atheists
- Rationalist International
- Atheist Revolution
- Debunking Christianity
- Godless Mom
- Atheist Freethinkers
Mainstream
Bibliography
Start here...
...proceed here.
- God is Not Great (Hitchens)
- The God Delusion (Dawkins)
- The End of Faith (Harris)
- Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell)
- Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)
Proselytize Religion
From Reddit
As a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.
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Maybe if atheists didn't abrasively proselytize so much, and denigrate every other faith, they'd feel more comfortable being in the open with their religion.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Aaaaand there we have yet another religious projectionist.
"Maybe if those atheists would stop giving valid criticisms and became religious instead, they'd feel more comfortable being in the open"
Maybe ask atheists in the middle east why they don't come out? Nah, they don't want to die
Maybe ask atheists in southern and mid wesrern US states why they don't come out? Nah, they don't want to be ostracized by their families and friends for "being an evil baby eater"
Somebody else already posted the Wikipedia link here about state atheism. Atheists are no more innocent than other people.
Maybe it's radical, even unfathomable; but it's almost as if the only pathway with any chance of peace is one where enough people can come to recognize that every. single. person. has their own set of beliefs, and the only kind of accord that has any chance of working for everyone, is one that actively supports diversity of belief.
This is true (and I am an atheist). Our disability is that we have to own our shittiness instead of saying "God told me to do it", which in the eyes in a lot of theists, is a get-out-of-jail-free card.
No, it's not true, see my other comment to the same post you replied to. Atheist can be antagonistic at times for sure, but with a good reason. We don't want religious people dead just because some atheist rule says so.
Bullshit.
Show me the atheist that murdered religious people because of atheism. Show me the atheist that committed countless crimes because of atheism.
Show me the atheist that hates other religions to the point where they will harass funerals because the dead one was religious.
It doesn't happen. You know what does happen though?
Go fuck yourself with the horse you rode in on. This some high level ignorant shit for someone that claims to be so spiritually enlightened. You need to reexamine your biases.
It's pretty cringe to compare the circumstances of atheism to the kinds of oppression black people, women, and lgbtq+ have. Atheism has been a source of oppression as much as atheists have been oppressed.
It is 'cringe' to blame any oppressed group of people for being oppressed, that's the whole point.
Does South African persecution of whites suddenly undo what black people in America have suffered through? Of fucking course not, that's idiocy.
The fact that a very few atheist states were established in the last century, and a few of them have been oppressive to the religious in that state, does not magically undo thousands of years of persecution. Especially when Atheists are still persecuted and put to death. There are nearly as many countries today that still criminalize atheism (13 total) as there have been atheist states throughout all of recorded history (~20 depending on how picky you want to be).
Eat shit
I sincerely hope this is a troll or sarcasm.
If you believe that your religion is the only valid one, and that the others need to go away, then you are as bad as an evangelical. Anti-theists are just the hypocritical mirror image of evangelicals.
Atheism isn't a religion bud.
It’s becoming one.
No it isn't. It has no tenets, no holy books, no authority figures. By definition it is a lack of a religion.
You’re talking about how it SHOULD be. Not how it it’s becoming. And besides- I’m talking about internet “atheism,” not atheism. On the Internet, a truism is basically just hatred as smugness. And it’s evolving into a full-on religion.
No, I am talking about both.
Atheism has no tenets, holy books, authority figures, etc. Nor is it developing those things. That applies in person and on the internet. It is in no way a religion. Not playing golf isn't a sport.
You still don’t understand what I am saying so I will try and explain it one more time:
What you’re describing is ATHEISM. And you are correct. But…. What I’m talking about is this thing kids are CALLING “atheism.”
It’s not atheism. It’s angsty hatred for cool points. They’ve co-opted the word and made it something else. Actual atheism isn’t about smug hatred.
Yes it is.
It's a religion in the same way that having no favorite sports team is itself someone's favorite team.
There is a difference between a belief system and a religion. Beleg in the scientific method, for instance, is not a religion. In fact it is the only belief system that seeks out to falsify it's tenets. Also it presupposes no overbearing creator or idea.
However not all atheists have the same belief system, however non believers in a god, hence a-theos. One you get those involved you're becoming a religion.
Yeah to be honest I just didn't feel like digging into the nuances. There is atheism (nonreligious), and there is Atheism (religious). And to be clear, that's totally fine. I have nothing against a/Atheism, only anti-theism or any other form of religious exclusivism.
Fair enough. It is a bit of nuance your should consider sharing, as some people in this sub feel antagonized by the idea of being labeled religious. I know that might be the exact self-identifying and group type dynamic that you may equate with religion (I would disagree, but that's another thing).
However putting it as bluntly as you did might not help in getting your point across, and that's a shame as it is actually an interesting area for discussion.
I get what you’re saying, but it’s not. It’s an ideology. However- with the blind hatred of others who chose to believe differently, they may as well rebrand and become Christianity minus a god.
Atheists just “don’t believe in your thing”. Do you not believe in some things? Do you believe in the Norse gods? There are thousands of gods you probably don’t believe in.
Not true. As a panentheistic polytheist I feel entirely comfortable affirming (or at least being open to) the existence of literally any noncorporeal entity you can talk about. I just might not have any interest in engaging with that entity.
The irony
U dropped this lol \