#but I live my life as an atheist

[ricksanchezbignaturals]

rick baby if you're not going to hell nobody is

[anqaspond]

its shocking how my stance that culture isnt an excuse for harm or oppression is so rare. like forgive me if i think racial grouping suited only to help me decide on whether or not a person can be reasonably abused is fucking stupid. forgive me if i think abuse isnt culture and you can still be connected to your culture without excusing abuse.

[orcelito]

I've always known that my dad loved us, but nothing's driven that home as much as everything we've found in the After.

Our prominence in his home (pictures, father's day cards, gifts on display, the letter), the way he prioritized us... and a damned good life insurance policy, set up specifically so that if he died early (always a possibility, since driving jobs are more dangerous than many) then we would have enough to get ourselves Set.

He raised us to become as independent as possible as soon as possible. Made sure we knew how to cook, clean, handle our finances (though he was hilariously kind of bad at that, himself), and much more. I've been doing my own laundry since I was about 10 years old, so it's a surprise when I hear about people going off to college still not knowing. Utterly unimaginable to me.

He wanted us to finish college so we could live more comfortable lives than he did. My sister accomplished this in good time. I have not. But with his final gift to us, this life insurance money, it's a very real thing I could do. I could Realistically pay for the rest of my schooling and not even have to work through it. And in not having to work as I take classes, I can dedicate myself to them more thoroughly than ever before, and hopefully Finally finish my degree.

Just as he wanted for me.

I'll always miss him, since having him in my life was worth more than any amount of money I could have. But I'll always be grateful to him for everything he gave to me.

I dont need a mother, however much mine is trying to scrabble for us right now. I haven't had a true mother in a long time (or maybe Ever).

Instead, I had the best father I could've ever asked for. He was the only parent I needed.

[udurghsigil]

not to sound anti-science or anything but i feel like a big reason for general human suffering right now is because we know too many of the secrets of this world

[strawberriandromeda]

Its hard to love god when it doesn't appear to love me or my friends or what's important to me but then i remember it IS me and my friends and what is important to me and i smile wide enough to start a whole new religion of one

[m-ercutios]

every few months i seriously look into the process of converting to judaism before remembering that i do not, in fact, believe in god

[mielgf]

guys how do i come out to my two christian roommates as an atheist please help

[haemosexuality]

this woman from mag 130 is just like me fr

[unopenablebox]

content note: the tone of this post is aggro, but this is sincerely meant as a psa/warning for those of you whose posts suggest this would be an actual dealbreaker for you in following me. the aggro tone is partly deliberate, to make clear the extreme sincerity and deeply held nature of my particular unfashionable stance in hopes that no one will rationalize it as a more palatable & less accurate version of it and have problems later. but also because i’m responding angrily to an extremely specific set of posts/attitudes. if you’re deeply confused about where i’m getting any of this you have probably not seen those posts and i am not just responding like this to a related but different thing that you have seen.

anyway. the post:

i know we’re all having a cute fun time around here but i should probably be clear that i very much am an atheist and a physicalist and am quite confident that god isn’t real. furthermore atheism is in fact neither just a smug racist edgelord stance for people who hate queerness and non-western cultural values, nor “still a religion, but for embarrassing people too stupid to know they still have a religion”, a rarer but somehow even more infuriating subspecies of the former argument.

it’s also not intrinsically contaminated with cultural christianity to be atheist, especially in some way that somehow applies to atheists above and beyond anyone else raised in a christian culture. i’m jewish. i was raised as an agnostic/atheist jew by agnostic/atheist jewish parents and grandparents in a deeply jewish family with jewish values and cultural practices. if you don’t go around constantly accusing any american jew you encounter of being permanently excluded from having values for being culturally christian you don’t get to do that shit to me just because i’m an atheist.

i have experienced feelings of sublime joy and movement in my life, including during religious services that were deeply meaningful to me. this is because humans contain the capacity to respond to stimuli with internally-generated feelings that feel intense, sublime, or external to ourselves. in fact, god isn’t real.

i’m not ever going to go on anyone else’s blog and say any of this to them, nor do i think it’s bad for people to believe in god, nor do i think it means you are stupid, worse than me, or bad at reasoning if you believe in god[(s) or related nonphysicalist or theist concepts]. but some people should maybe think for ten fucking seconds before they decide to get smug about the universally evil obviously incorrect secret-christianity of atheism, assholes

[babysgarage]

the one thing gomens and spn taught me about christianity is that i really need to learn more about judaism

[hugintheraven]

The thing about religion* in the US is that for some people, it's a comfort, a community and support structure for themselves and others. And for other people it's a weapon. And it's really hard for people who've only ever seen the church as a safe haven to understand people who see the church as a baseball bat, and the same in reverse. And I don't see a way to balance the needs of people for the faith that helps them with the needs of people who's reaction to a displayed cross is to start locating the exits in case of an incoming hate crime.

*mostly talking white Christianity here, because that's my experience, but this can definitely be taken more broadly.

[nateconnolly]

hi! this is @arkefthos , on my main; love your blog! i wanted to ask as well, is that lyric in your intro from rainbow kitten surprise? quite a nice surprise honestly!

Yes! I had their album RKS constantly playing during one of the most transformative periods of my life. I listened to them going on loooong night jogs thinking about God and stuff. They were playing during the precise moment I stopped being an atheist, so, for me personally, the quote relates a lot to the topic of this blog. Like thinking about divinity, thinking about the cosmos, working out your place in the world by trying to figure out what the world is...

[lungfuls]

I would be so much cooler if I had some type of spiritual community but I just don't believe in that shit. which is why I need to move somewhere with a universalist unitarian church

[nomaishuttle]

its hard being a girl who just likes things that smell nice and shiny things bc its like omg i loveee good smell i heart candles and incense and then i look up incense and see whatever this is

and then im like uhmm.... ok anyways..... Well what if i got shiny rocks i will look at pictures of shiny rocks now and theyre all tagged some shit like vaginal purification women energy witchy vibes aura blah balh blah and its like ok lets all kill ourselves

[homophyte]

im ngl the way some ppl on this site talk abt christianity is really baffling

[corvidcall]

uh oh i did it again! (longingly looked at course requirements for interesting degrees from the university near me even though i cant imagine ill ever be able to afford to go back to school for a bachelors degree)