TIL about the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster thanks to @velshi on #MSNBC news.
"The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, after having existed in secrecy for hundreds of years, came into the mainstream just a few years ago*.
With millions, if not thousands, of devout worshipers, the Church of the FSM is widely considered a legitimate religion, even by its opponents – mostly fundamentalist Christians, who have accepted that our God has larger balls than theirs."
When I criticize #Religion from now on I’m adding an #Athiest hashtag to give people a clue that I don’t want to be proselytized about some other religion they think is better. This is doubly true as #Queer person. A good majority of us left religion and have no intention of going back and it doesn’t matter how inclusive you say your religion is. Good for that religion for being inclusive but that still is a hard no for me.
@atheistdude Condescending Phrases Religious nuts will hear from me:
Please keep your imaginary friend to yourself
I'm so sorry to hear you need a book to tell you how to be a good person.
What kind of sick fuck is your god that he made 3 religions and gave them all the same Holy land?
You are going feel the fool when you die and realize no one is sorting us into Paradise Bliss/Eternal Agony camps and we are all just spirits trapped in meat suits making ill-informed choices.
An old Argentinian guy dies in Rome and suddenly he is all over the news this morning. I for one will not miss him, revere him or pray for him.
#religion #atheism #athiest #agnostic #christian #catholic #religious #faith #indigenous #buddhism #islam #jewish #sikhism #shinto #question #orthodox #philosophy #cult
What does a religion need for you to accept it as your own? Should it go into depth of metaphysical concepts or simply give moral principles/laws that prove understandable/helpful to the everyman? What do you need to truly believe? What is most important in a potential faith to you?
If you view religion as necessary for ethics, you've reduced us to the ethical level of four-year-olds. "If you follow these commandments you'll go to heaven, if you don't you'll burn in hell" is just a spectacular version of the carrots and sticks with which you raise your children. -Susan Neiman, philosopher and author (b. 27 Mar 1955)
The public testimony on the anti trans bill (#HB148 ) in NH this morning was great.
If you want to watch it it’s the first one in this stream and it goes right up until they take a break for lunch. If you hear him talk about recessing it it’s just so he can postpone the other 3 they were going to hear this morning.
The only two objections I remember I remember them because I laughed out loud. The first one was an older woman saying that we needed to go back to the way it was because it was totally fine that way (for white cis people, the only people who matter I guess), and another woman who was ranting about how she lives in fear every day that she’ll see a man in the bathroom. Then there was a man who spoke in support of the bill and requested that we regulate cis heterosexual men because they are the real danger to women.
There was a pastor and an employment attorney who spoke on behalf of herself and her firm, the support was pretty overwhelming even though there were plenty who opposed.
https://www.youtube.com/live/JpDi1meWOnc
(Also this is the link for the freedom of religion bill #HB620 being heard at 1:45 and I’m really excited to watch that one because initially I was excited about this bill but after reading some of the opposition I’m thinking I almost got tricked. An #athiest organization submitted a multiple page letter explaining that the group that’s pushing this isn’t about religious freedom at all.)
Ironically, I feel compelled to say 'amen'!
#frankzappa #athiest #athiesm #fuckproject2025 #fuckchristofacists
#Religion #Athiest #ConspiracyTheory #Grooming
Well, this seems spot on:
A message to #democrats from a #leftist about current #politics
The same way #Palentir drives the poor into gangs via algorithmic police harassment: so too does hating on a gender push that gender to a party that messages not only acceptance but dominance.
I say this as an #agender #athiest that voted blue. The messaging about men is a key component to their radicalization to the right. Just Like police harrasment is internalized.
Fuck: I hate this timeline. Bernie should have won 2016…
If you block everyone that disagrees with you: you form a bubble.
Block toxic people.
There is need for argument, to strengthen your positions, to persuade others, to be persuaded from bad positions.
Sometimes when people disagree it can feel like it’s a personal attack… lots of ideology attaches itself to your identity. Religion and politics want to “get them while they’re young”. The longer ideology is in you the harder it is to extract.
#progresive #leftist #athiest #politics
You can’t attack religion without attacking the people supporting that religion. That’s a feature of religion: that it uses human meat shields for so many things.
I guess: maybe consider that ANYONE OR ANYTHING that’s using you as a meat shield to defend itself probably doesn’t have your best interests at heart…
Overheard on the bus in Salt Lake City- mormon missionary: "What would make you a believer?"
Random guy:"I dunno...a lobotomy? Massive traumatic brain injury?"
#utah #mormon #religionsucks #athiest
@knittingknots2 So much to laugh about in this clip. I'd have pangs for his wife, but oh yeah, she chose this angry white man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQIWcSY6MPk
How Project 2025 Targets Atheists (and Non-Religious Americans)
Nick Fish, President of American Atheists joins me to discuss the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 and how it overlaps with the GOP’s Agenda 47 for a Trump presidency.
@SallyStrange @Anticivgaian I have a feeling #Athiest is going to go viral today.
*~*{*SUBJECT!*& Questions For ATHEIST?*& Helpful Hints!
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*I have some questions for atheist?]
*As an atheist are you really wanting to believe?*& Are hoping you will get some real understanding?*& Some magic clue to become a believer?
*~*{*SUBJECT!*& Questions For ATHEIST?*& Helpful Hints!}*~**I have a questions for atheist?*IF you don’t believe in God?*Than why do you write to believers?*& ask unusual questions?
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