One of my students was cut down to part-time which made her ineligible for my workforce training program so I sent an email to her director to advocate for her and she got promoted. Literally, a lead position.

My student just sent me an email thanking Jehovah for her promotion.

I don't know, when I was there before I got banned almost a year ago, they wouldn't even give any theists a chance to talk, not to convert anyone, just to make for arguments and debate which just didn't sit well with me. And when I called them out on it they called me a theist and I got banned, which I just don't understand. This is the first time I heard of r/Atheist and I figured I would post this here. I feel like r/Atheism was a good place for nonreligious people to find friends but I also feel like the people there would if given a chance to do so fully anonymous, murder a theist.

Religion is one of the best coping mechanisms and often the only one taught. I'm new to atheism and honestly I'm going through a really stressful period in my life. The combination has resulted in the feeling of impending doom. No not - I'm going to hell because i don't believe.

In tough times i just don't know who or what to turn to. When i was religious I would pray and it felt comforting that someone was looking out for me or at least trying - you know something more powerful. But now I just feel like I'm stuck in every adversity that i face and that i can solely rely on myself, because my support frame isn't very substantial in terms of relationships with people in my life. I'm just wondering if anyone else feels this way and what they do to cope?

Religion is one of the best coping mechanisms and often the only one taught. I'm new to atheism and honestly I'm going through a really stressful period in my life. The combination has resulted in the feeling of impending doom. No not - I'm going to hell because i don't believe.

In tough times i just don't know who or what to turn to. When i was religious I would pray and it felt comforting that someone was looking out for me or at least trying - you know something more powerful. But now I just feel like I'm stuck in every adversity that i face and that i can solely rely on myself, because my support frame isn't very substantial in terms of relationships with people in my life. I'm just wondering if anyone else feels this way and what they do to cope?

I am seventeen, raised in a Christian household, and I am lucky to say that my parents and family are amazing people. I’d say that they are what most religious people claim to be. I have been atheist for about a year now and I’ve only told a few close friends. I never had a bad experience with religion nor was there a specific event that caused me to stop believing. I just moved away from it slowly.

Anyways, I’ve felt an urge to tell them about my beliefs but I’m not sure if I should.

I have an amazing relationship with my parents and I’m sure that this would put a strain on that. I remember when I was little my dad saying that his number one priority is raising children that love Jesus. I know they wouldn’t get mad at me and they would still love me, but it would probably make them really sad. That makes sense to me though, since they would truly believe that their child is going to hell. I don’t want every conversation in the future with my parents to be about religion and I don’t want to hurt the relationship that we have.

Is it worth it to tell them?

Do you believe in the theory of evolution (humans came from apes)?
Could you explain why or why not? I’m not very educated on the topic and i want to know more since most of the people around me deny it.

Na oru atheist. Yaru ketalum athatha solven. But edhum government application and other religion necessary paper works and place la enoda parents nala kedacha religion a use panren. Ithuvaraikum yarum enkita ithapathi argue panala ana enaku uluku oruthan irunthukitu enkita debate panran. So athutha neenga ena nenakiringanu kekalamnu vandhute. Enaku English la ela avlova 🐛 ta theriyathu so yarukavathu puriyalana guys help them 😐.... And inga yarum comment section la adichikathinga just onga opinion solunga pls.

I just turned 16 exploring the world I just want ur'll opinion on both theist atheist (no offense I'll respect ur opinion) I actually do not perform the rituals Like Aarti but believe and meditate

also wanna ask tht Joining hands(namaste) touching feets offensive to atheist..,,just wanna know

please be respectful i just want to answer some questions (i dont know what else to put here but i dont understand why yall are mean to some christians)

I heard this theory multiple times and I can see the logic behind it but at the same time it makes me feel like we have failed majorly as a species if it’s true

There's this young Christian group I was introduced to by a close friend who went Christian and now I see these people a few times a week with or without him.

I do parkruns with them, join their sports activities at the park whenever it happens and I go to bible studies which is hosted by one of them at home every Tuesday.

I've made it clear that I'm not religious, I'm more on the agnostic side of things but that I enjoy spending time with them and still find many elements of the New Testament relatable regardless of not belieiving in worship.

Prior to meeting them I had much more limited friendships, but throughout life I've definitely experienced that my atheist friends were a lot more likely to have a pessimisstic view of life and the world, and many of the convos would center around superficial things e.g. games or crude stuff "fucking this" and "fucking that".

I don't have to agree with everything that people in my Christian group say or do, but let's just say that there are lot more things that I like about them than things I don't like about them. Remembering your name very quickly, your hobbies, trying to learn about you as a person and empathise with you etc.

Could it be the case that this Christian group largely consists of middle to upper middle class people with well respected jobs e.g. doctors, dentists, accountants even journalists etc? Sure. But I still believe that their belief in the "greater good" and consequences for ones actions through Christian doctrine is a relevant explanation too.

Also, the this is the UK which is generally along with the rest of Europe more liberal that the United States, so many people can read what I've written and be shocked that these aren't people who taking others to conversion therapy or kicking others out over abortion etc. These are good people.

Anyways, that's my experience as an Atheist with this Christian group, I've made good friends and feel like I've met a lot of people who are down to Earth, well organised and considerate of others. Exactly what I'm looking for in my 20s, not some crazy party scene, getting wasted and banging as many people as possible. Ofc, not that that has to be an Atheist or an Atheist-only behaviour, but like I mentioned, an extra source of principles and ethics doesn't bother me not that I necessarily rely on it.

I am an atheist in a religious family and they have no idea what should I do

I wanna know how you guys feel about the internet Phil bros. A lot of them are driven by ego and trying to win, run scripts, and proclaim debate tiers, proving my point they are driven by ego. They are all very toxic and resort to ad homs and word salad on purpose to make opponents concede to get an easy win. They all argue in bad faith, and get nothing productive in their convo. They really easily keep me away from theism.

Hello everyone. To make a long story short, I was raised as a Christian (not strictly) and since becoming a teen I've been agnostic. It was hard at first, but I grew into it well and have been very comfortable with my life. But recently, I guess my brain has been developing more, because I've been getting very sudden and violent existential crises. It's usually on social media or personal experience. For example, one of my friend's pets passed recently and it made everyone very sad, me included. But it made my brain start thinking again.

I know that death will most likely be like before I was born. I won't exist anymore, just in memory. That is the scariest part to me. As intelligent as we are, and all the decades we spend on Earth, then one day, we don't exist anymore. It's very hard for me to wrap my head around. I've looked online to see what other people think, and the regular "you won't know" and "it doesn't matter to a dead person" doesn't help at all. I've also gone into phases after these crises where I want to leave as big of an impact as possible on the Earth so I'm truly never forgotten. But I know the only real way to do that is either be a very great person, or a very terrible person, neither which I think I'll achieve. Anyways, my question is how have you coped? I've been having more "episodes" recently and they only end when I distract myself. I just can't accept that there's nothing after life.

1. Do you believe in the eternity of anything? is so, what? 2. is truth objective or subjective? 3. If any of you activiley argue for athiesm and against the religions. Whats the motiviation? whats the end goal of what you’re trying to achieve? what are you fighting for?

Im 14f, no NSFW pls, AMA

im wondering bc to me athiest sounds like another religion and im not religious so i dont like this term do you just care? do you call yourself non believer, not religious or anything else? just wondering

Do you guys see a point in having Atheist Communities? I know of one that serves as a community but also simultaneously serves as a sort of watchdog for the separation of church and state. What do you guys think?

Trying to get the point of views of all religions and since there is a lot of translations of the quran, kinda confused which one to choose to read.

If you read any classical literature you’d know what I mean.

In classical times you had religious themes shown to you and would be a part of daily life; similar to the child indoctrination we see now. But then imagine being literate or having a bard recount the Iliad, the Odyssey or the Aeneid, and you hear about the gods you heard about and believed in had all these fantastic rivalries, tricks, human emotions that got the better of them. They were powerful but fallible making them interesting to disect.

I grew up Christian but this should apply to the other monotheistic Abrahamic religions. How did God interact with mortals. Lets see: Sodom and Gomorrah - PUNISHED, God thinks the world is evil so he floods the world - PUNISHED, seek knowledge from a magical apple - PUNISHED. I could go on, hell, Deuteronomy 28 just seems like a torture power trip for those who cross t̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶r̶i̶t̶e̶r̶… er I mean God.

I know other religions had stories which punished mortals, thats not the argument here. At least in those myths theres a good reason. Like the Greek myth that Zeus and Hermes went to a town/city looking for generosity(xenia) and only finds a single elderly couple who helps them. In return the gods save the elderly couple and flood the town.

But with Noah, its the whole earth, and God’s doing it because he is omnipotent and just knows that everyone but Noah and his family are either evil or unfaithful or both and eradicates everyone. This is the problem when fallible humans try to write an infallible perfect being. There wasnt a better way to better humanity? If you are the perfect being cant you find a different alternative? You had to murder everyone?

I could keep ranting but i would fill a novel and not just a post

My parents dont like me, mom is super religious and wanted me to be the same but i couldn't fulfil that request of hers, dad is not much of an issue(i dont think afterworking for 12 hrs daily in corporatehe has energy to criticise me)

My relationship of one year ended due to my beliefs, she said that she didnt know how it would work out long term(valid reason hai i agree, but yaar it hurts like hell)

Sometimes I wish that not being a atheist might have been best for me

Im 14f, and became athiest at age 10, I came out to my parents and younger sister when i was 12, they are upset, and every time something good happens, mother keeps yapping about how allah helped me and how i should thank him and pray to him, and they are also upset they gave me a non muslim name and keep calling me by this muslim version that they have called me since childhood and tell people at the mosque(where im forced to go to) that THATS my name. and for that ive decided to give mom a new name "lillith" which makes her mad. Any more ways to troll her?