The American Crusade is nearing victory for the christian terrorists
Democracy is gone. Rule of law is gone. Due process is gone. The federal government as well as many accompanying state/local agencies have made it clear that their agents can and will suppress opposition by all means necessary, including the murder if anyone, citizen or otherwise. Sadly, I fear the opposition to christian terrorists are too weak and too apathetic to do much at this point. The christian terrorists that occupy the cabinet are forcing their religious terror on the departments of education, health, defense and everywhere else they can infect. To put it in words the kids understand, we are cooked.
January 6, 2021 was the definitive death of democracy in the USA when christian terrorists stormed the US Capitol, ultimately saying a prayer to their sky daddy upon reaching the House floor in the same way the Muslim terrorists shout prayers before flying planes into buildings or blowing themselves up in a suicide bombing..
The pardoning of the Jan 6 christian terrorists only emboldened them in the same way the South was allowed to “rise again” after Reconstruction. The ICE christian terrorists pray before they go out on roving patrols. Schools and state institutions are being required to display christian symbology despite clear violations of a major tenet of US law, the establishment clause in the 1st Amendment. These terrorists are not “making America safer” they are using fear and violence to enact their religious terror with the end goal of ushering in their fairy tale rapture.
The violence started with immigrants and will move on to the citizenry. Next will be LGBTQ. After that it’s the atheists.
We are lost folks. This is Iran in the 1970s or 1100s Europe. The US has done a decent job counteracting christo-fascism but I genuinely think this is the start of a new American Crusade.
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Democracy is gone. Rule of law is gone. Due process is gone. The federal government as well as many accompanying state/local agencies have made it clear that their agents can and will suppress opposition by all means necessary, including the murder if anyone, citizen or otherwise. Sadly, I fear the opposition to christian terrorists are too weak and too apathetic to do much at this point. The christian terrorists that occupy the cabinet are forcing their religious terror on the departments of education, health, defense and everywhere else they can infect. To put it in words the kids understand, we are cooked.
January 6, 2021 was the definitive death of democracy in the USA when christian terrorists stormed the US Capitol, ultimately saying a prayer to their sky daddy upon reaching the House floor in the same way the Muslim terrorists shout prayers before flying planes into buildings or blowing themselves up in a suicide bombing..
The pardoning of the Jan 6 christian terrorists only emboldened them in the same way the South was allowed to “rise again” after Reconstruction. The ICE christian terrorists pray before they go out on roving patrols. Schools and state institutions are being required to display christian symbology despite clear violations of a major tenet of US law, the establishment clause in the 1st Amendment. These terrorists are not “making America safer” they are using fear and violence to enact their religious terror with the end goal of ushering in their fairy tale rapture.
The violence started with immigrants and will move on to the citizenry. Next will be LGBTQ. After that it’s the atheists.
We are lost folks. This is Iran in the 1970s or 1100s Europe. The US has done a decent job counteracting christo-fascism but I genuinely think this is the start of a new American Crusade.
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I forget how loud Christians need to make themselves sometimes.
This is just a bit of a rant (I do believe those are accepted here? Forgive me if I’ve misinterpreted the rules).
Over the holidays, I spent some time with my extended relatives. Most of them are fairly low-key Christian. My direct family stopped forcing me to go to church when I was around 6, and they’ve never had any trouble with my Atheism as long as I’m not argumentative.
However, there is one small group in the family that happens to be quite loud about their religious beliefs pretty much always. They have other problematic beliefs, and generally require that they are at the center of attention. Anyways, they’re two parents and their children (10 and 13). I honestly interact with them so little that I often forget how bad they can get.
Christmas had been good. I did the obligatory gift giving and receiving. There were no arguments. Everyone in my chronic-pain riddled family was actually up and alive, not bedridden or ill. Nothing had set on fire in the kitchen, and the two youngest children (1 and 4) had been quite well-behaved with no tantrums or sobbing/screeching. I actually thought it was going to be a really nice dinner with my family for once.
We all start trickling down to the table from the buffet-style serving plates (all 14 of us, that is), and everyone is chattering and whatnot. Someone had a face full of bread rolls. Someone else is nearly inhaling a slice of ham. The youngest two are attacking a bowl of blueberries like it owes them money. Life is great.
Then, the kids sit down (who I shall call 10 and 13, respectively). 13 scrunches up his nose and scoffs quite loudly, making a clatter of nearly slamming his plate on the table. He goes “we havent said grace yet!” (Whatever, fair, go on with your occult activities if we can get back to eating without conflict). 10 is nodding along, glaring at everyone.
Suddenly, 13 locks eyes with one of the adults on the table and starts talking about how disrespectful to god it is to forget about grace and how we’re all going to go to hell because, clearly, we are against the word of God (I am also the only atheist in a table full of practicing Christians, for context, so it’s even stranger that he would get so easily upset).
Either way, 13 suddenly grabs my wrist, closes his eyes, and starts saying some version of grace as loud as I think he could. Soon, his sister and parents join in, all in unison. Nobody else seemed to know this one, so we were all sitting in awkward silence. I, thankfully, know better than to smack some sense into a 13 year old for laying his hands on me, but the temptation was there.
Their part of the family usually leads grace, which is tolerable (not my house not my rules), and usually only lasts about 15-20 seconds of Daily Bread or some popular grace I vaguely know from my youth. This time, though, it was a whole 90 seconds religious spiel about forgiveness of sinners and stuff…I was quite cultish. I think even some of the eldest churchy folk (the kind who have a permanent cross affixed above their headboard) looked mildly disturbed by the aggressive nature of the prayer.
So, that happened. It ultimately didn’t accumulate into anything, but it tarnished the meal a bit and only strengthened my distaste for them. While I’m not very loud about my atheism, I just wanted to snap at them about learning to be a little more respectful. But I didn’t say anything and luckily dinner went on without any further trouble.
Maybe I’m thinking about it too much, maybe not. I just needed to get it out. Even if I wasn’t so starkly anti-religion, it was still in such bad taste and just reminded me that some religious people will take every opportunity to appear holier than thou and shove other people down under the guise of spreading gospel. I’ve talked to other religious friends about it, and they admit it was uncalled for, but 13 year old boys aren’t exactly known for their tact, either.
That’s all. Feel free to share any thoughts or similar experiences. All I know is that I’ll be
This is just a bit of a rant (I do believe those are accepted here? Forgive me if I’ve misinterpreted the rules).
Over the holidays, I spent some time with my extended relatives. Most of them are fairly low-key Christian. My direct family stopped forcing me to go to church when I was around 6, and they’ve never had any trouble with my Atheism as long as I’m not argumentative.
However, there is one small group in the family that happens to be quite loud about their religious beliefs pretty much always. They have other problematic beliefs, and generally require that they are at the center of attention. Anyways, they’re two parents and their children (10 and 13). I honestly interact with them so little that I often forget how bad they can get.
Christmas had been good. I did the obligatory gift giving and receiving. There were no arguments. Everyone in my chronic-pain riddled family was actually up and alive, not bedridden or ill. Nothing had set on fire in the kitchen, and the two youngest children (1 and 4) had been quite well-behaved with no tantrums or sobbing/screeching. I actually thought it was going to be a really nice dinner with my family for once.
We all start trickling down to the table from the buffet-style serving plates (all 14 of us, that is), and everyone is chattering and whatnot. Someone had a face full of bread rolls. Someone else is nearly inhaling a slice of ham. The youngest two are attacking a bowl of blueberries like it owes them money. Life is great.
Then, the kids sit down (who I shall call 10 and 13, respectively). 13 scrunches up his nose and scoffs quite loudly, making a clatter of nearly slamming his plate on the table. He goes “we havent said grace yet!” (Whatever, fair, go on with your occult activities if we can get back to eating without conflict). 10 is nodding along, glaring at everyone.
Suddenly, 13 locks eyes with one of the adults on the table and starts talking about how disrespectful to god it is to forget about grace and how we’re all going to go to hell because, clearly, we are against the word of God (I am also the only atheist in a table full of practicing Christians, for context, so it’s even stranger that he would get so easily upset).
Either way, 13 suddenly grabs my wrist, closes his eyes, and starts saying some version of grace as loud as I think he could. Soon, his sister and parents join in, all in unison. Nobody else seemed to know this one, so we were all sitting in awkward silence. I, thankfully, know better than to smack some sense into a 13 year old for laying his hands on me, but the temptation was there.
Their part of the family usually leads grace, which is tolerable (not my house not my rules), and usually only lasts about 15-20 seconds of Daily Bread or some popular grace I vaguely know from my youth. This time, though, it was a whole 90 seconds religious spiel about forgiveness of sinners and stuff…I was quite cultish. I think even some of the eldest churchy folk (the kind who have a permanent cross affixed above their headboard) looked mildly disturbed by the aggressive nature of the prayer.
So, that happened. It ultimately didn’t accumulate into anything, but it tarnished the meal a bit and only strengthened my distaste for them. While I’m not very loud about my atheism, I just wanted to snap at them about learning to be a little more respectful. But I didn’t say anything and luckily dinner went on without any further trouble.
Maybe I’m thinking about it too much, maybe not. I just needed to get it out. Even if I wasn’t so starkly anti-religion, it was still in such bad taste and just reminded me that some religious people will take every opportunity to appear holier than thou and shove other people down under the guise of spreading gospel. I’ve talked to other religious friends about it, and they admit it was uncalled for, but 13 year old boys aren’t exactly known for their tact, either.
That’s all. Feel free to share any thoughts or similar experiences. All I know is that I’ll be
picking my seats more strategically next holiday season.
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New data debunk claims of ‘revival’ in America
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The Murder of Renee Nicole Good is another Impact of Christian Nationalism
Renee Nicole Good was murdered in cold blood by an ICE agent, aka one of Trump's Gestapo cops, after dropping her child off at school. Based on the evidence I could gather, she wasn't there to stop them from carrying out their ethnic cleansing, and at most, she was a legal observer. The agent who murdered her did so after she had become terrified for her life and attempted to drive away from the scene after conflicting information from other agents regarding how to conduct herself. What happened here is not only a tragedy, but also endemic of something more sinister, Christian nationalism.
Why do I say this when religion is not the apparent cause of this specific incident? In fact, Renee was said to be a devoted Christian. We also don't know the religion of the agent in question, and there is certainly no way the agent knew of her religious views in one direction or another, so how could this be related to Christian nationalism? The answer is that the specific details of the tragedy may not have any religious connection, but what led to it happening is absolutely thanks to Christianity, specifically right-wing evangelical Christianity.
How did we get here? The short answer is that Donald Trump is abusing his authority over the presidency. But how did he get elected? He was elected, in part, by White evangelical Christians, and it was not a close race within this demographic, as these people voted overwhelmingly for him, making them one of Trump's strongest voting demographics.
What happened with Trump and evangelicals being so glazed over by him is something that was a long time coming, and it goes all the way back to the Civil Rights Movement. In short, when Lyndon Johnson told the South it was time to pay the piper, White people in southern states lost their minds. They couldn't stand the idea of sharing anything with Black people and did their best to find workarounds to integration. One of those workarounds was defunding public schools and shipping their white kids to more expensive private "Christian" schools. And so in the late 60s and early 70s, there was an exponential growth of these schools as White parents tried to find options to keep their kids away from Black kids. Oh, god, the horror of going to school with Black people, what could be worse? These schools barred Black families either financially or overtly, and did so through the guise of Jesus.
What would eventually happen is that Richard Nixon read the writing on the wall and saw an opportunity to break up the New Deal Coalition and plant the seeds for republican dominance of the South we see today. He did so by dragging his feet on civil rights and somewhat looking the other way when Christian schools violated their tax-exempt status with segregation instead of outright opposing civil rights, as that would have been political suicide at this time. As we can see today, this strategy clearly worked.
Another big figure was the Wario to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Mario, Jerry Falwell. Jerry Falwell is truly one of the biggest supervillains in American history. If Martin Luther King Jr. is America's Jesus, then Jerry Falwell is the beast from the Book of Revelation. Jerry Falwell was a preacher from Virginia who was also one of the most vilely racist men to ever exist. Jerry was not only a prominent and very influential figure within the evangelical right, but was also the founder of Liberty University, another Christian school that sought to circumvent integration because he hated Martin Luther King Jr., Black people, the Civil Rights Movement, and human progress. Obviously, he wanted to keep his school's tax-exempt status, and so he, too, read the writing on the wall and knew he had to get evangelicals to uniformly vote republican.
One of the roadblocks to his plans, though, was Jimmy Carter, a fellow southern evangelical Christian who swept the South as a Democrat and became the president in the late 70s. As president, Jimmy Carter was not sympathetic to
Renee Nicole Good was murdered in cold blood by an ICE agent, aka one of Trump's Gestapo cops, after dropping her child off at school. Based on the evidence I could gather, she wasn't there to stop them from carrying out their ethnic cleansing, and at most, she was a legal observer. The agent who murdered her did so after she had become terrified for her life and attempted to drive away from the scene after conflicting information from other agents regarding how to conduct herself. What happened here is not only a tragedy, but also endemic of something more sinister, Christian nationalism.
Why do I say this when religion is not the apparent cause of this specific incident? In fact, Renee was said to be a devoted Christian. We also don't know the religion of the agent in question, and there is certainly no way the agent knew of her religious views in one direction or another, so how could this be related to Christian nationalism? The answer is that the specific details of the tragedy may not have any religious connection, but what led to it happening is absolutely thanks to Christianity, specifically right-wing evangelical Christianity.
How did we get here? The short answer is that Donald Trump is abusing his authority over the presidency. But how did he get elected? He was elected, in part, by White evangelical Christians, and it was not a close race within this demographic, as these people voted overwhelmingly for him, making them one of Trump's strongest voting demographics.
What happened with Trump and evangelicals being so glazed over by him is something that was a long time coming, and it goes all the way back to the Civil Rights Movement. In short, when Lyndon Johnson told the South it was time to pay the piper, White people in southern states lost their minds. They couldn't stand the idea of sharing anything with Black people and did their best to find workarounds to integration. One of those workarounds was defunding public schools and shipping their white kids to more expensive private "Christian" schools. And so in the late 60s and early 70s, there was an exponential growth of these schools as White parents tried to find options to keep their kids away from Black kids. Oh, god, the horror of going to school with Black people, what could be worse? These schools barred Black families either financially or overtly, and did so through the guise of Jesus.
What would eventually happen is that Richard Nixon read the writing on the wall and saw an opportunity to break up the New Deal Coalition and plant the seeds for republican dominance of the South we see today. He did so by dragging his feet on civil rights and somewhat looking the other way when Christian schools violated their tax-exempt status with segregation instead of outright opposing civil rights, as that would have been political suicide at this time. As we can see today, this strategy clearly worked.
Another big figure was the Wario to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Mario, Jerry Falwell. Jerry Falwell is truly one of the biggest supervillains in American history. If Martin Luther King Jr. is America's Jesus, then Jerry Falwell is the beast from the Book of Revelation. Jerry Falwell was a preacher from Virginia who was also one of the most vilely racist men to ever exist. Jerry was not only a prominent and very influential figure within the evangelical right, but was also the founder of Liberty University, another Christian school that sought to circumvent integration because he hated Martin Luther King Jr., Black people, the Civil Rights Movement, and human progress. Obviously, he wanted to keep his school's tax-exempt status, and so he, too, read the writing on the wall and knew he had to get evangelicals to uniformly vote republican.
One of the roadblocks to his plans, though, was Jimmy Carter, a fellow southern evangelical Christian who swept the South as a Democrat and became the president in the late 70s. As president, Jimmy Carter was not sympathetic to
segregation, and this was a thorn in Falwell's side, so when the next election came around, he had to convince his followers that Ronald Reagan was Jesus's chosen candidate. He did this by convincing them that abortion was something Jesus hated and that Reagan was the biggest anti-abortion president there was. By the way, Jesus and the rest of the Bible have not recorded to have said anything about abortion. Much like Nixon, Falwell could not come out right and say what he was really thinking because saying the n-word was beyond unacceptable by 1980, so that's why he went with abortion. Sprinkle some good old-fashioned homophobia and sexism on top of the anti-abortion pearl clutching, and you have God's chosen president in Reagan, all thanks to Falwell. And it would be this election that almost permanently and uniformly aligned the evangelical right with the Republican Party.
The foundation of the modern Republican Party is White suburbanites throwing a temper tantrum over seeing Black kids in their kids' school.
Fast forward to today, these people voted for Donald Trump in a block because of the foundations laid by Nixon, Reagan, and Falwell. And they were happy to do so because Donald Trump exudes the characteristics they like in a presidential candidate. The overturning of Roe v. Wade, the racism, the destruction of queer rights, the sexism, and the blind support for Israel in the face of Netanyahu's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. All these things these people were taught since birth in their churches.
It does not take a biblical scholar to see the parallels between Jesus's death and resurrection and Donald Trump's political journey, at least when you look at it from a right-wing evangelical view. According to the gospels, Jesus was God's savior for humanity who was rejected by his own people, crucified at their request, and then rose three days later to ascend to be with God, and now we wait for his return. Trump came down from the escalator like Jesus from Heaven to be America's (White) savior from the sin of living next door to Latinos, was rejected and crucified by a misguided crowd of his people via losing reelection in 2020 to Joe Biden, but then resurrected in 2024 and had his second coming with his second term and is now establishing a Kingdom of Heaven so to speak by going even more unhinged now than in his second term.
This is what brings us to today, when an innocent woman was murdered by Trump's abuse of authority, and is empowered to do so in large part by Christian nationalism.
TL;DR - I don't care how much you hate Jerry Falwell because I guarantee that you don't hate him enough.
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The foundation of the modern Republican Party is White suburbanites throwing a temper tantrum over seeing Black kids in their kids' school.
Fast forward to today, these people voted for Donald Trump in a block because of the foundations laid by Nixon, Reagan, and Falwell. And they were happy to do so because Donald Trump exudes the characteristics they like in a presidential candidate. The overturning of Roe v. Wade, the racism, the destruction of queer rights, the sexism, and the blind support for Israel in the face of Netanyahu's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. All these things these people were taught since birth in their churches.
It does not take a biblical scholar to see the parallels between Jesus's death and resurrection and Donald Trump's political journey, at least when you look at it from a right-wing evangelical view. According to the gospels, Jesus was God's savior for humanity who was rejected by his own people, crucified at their request, and then rose three days later to ascend to be with God, and now we wait for his return. Trump came down from the escalator like Jesus from Heaven to be America's (White) savior from the sin of living next door to Latinos, was rejected and crucified by a misguided crowd of his people via losing reelection in 2020 to Joe Biden, but then resurrected in 2024 and had his second coming with his second term and is now establishing a Kingdom of Heaven so to speak by going even more unhinged now than in his second term.
This is what brings us to today, when an innocent woman was murdered by Trump's abuse of authority, and is empowered to do so in large part by Christian nationalism.
TL;DR - I don't care how much you hate Jerry Falwell because I guarantee that you don't hate him enough.
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Justice ministry seeks to end jail terms for blasphemy in Poland
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Catholic Paper Calls JD Vance a Moral Stain for ICE Victim Smear
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A National Catholic Reporter op-ed says the vice president’s Catholicism is “little more than a political prop.”
Court upholds $400,000 fine against lawyer who warned Catholic school about predator on staff.
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Why More Māori Are Rejecting Christianity
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Father Of ICE Shooter Says His Son Is "Conservative Christian," Neighbor Says He Flew Trump/MAGA Flags.
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FFRF Action Fund names Indiana Gov. Mike Braun “Theocrat of the Week” for Ten Commandments lawsuit
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Leaving Christianity (i think)
I am posting this on both r/atheism and r/christianity. I want to get opinions from both sides to make sure I'm not making a mistake.
Many reasons caused this. I will tell you the ones that affected me most but there are far, far more.
God describes hell as worse than being born so why doesn't he just stop the people he knows will go to hell from being born. He can't create free will without evil right? Evil is there and the choice to turn away is because of free will. Yet there is free will in heaven. Couldn't he just do the sane for earth, or have just heaven. People who grew up in say Islam for example with no concept of Christianity will go to hell for believing in the wrong God. Everyone has smth that would make them convert, wether it's a miracle or seeing God themselves, or whatever it is. But why do only some get to see God, get miracles, why not all? God is either all powerful or all loving not both. Look at the world, he either can't help or doesn't care. And don't give me all that you need evil to see the good or it makes you stronger bullshit. Heaven is only good yet you don't remember your life on earth. Again why can't we just have heaven or earth working similar to heaven. The babies that die painful deaths, young children with cancer, older people dying in pain don't need to be stronger, they need help
A main reason for me personally. I prayed for months on end for God to bring me back. To give me a sign, anything to show me he's there. I was so pissed at him for making me gay. Because of how my sexuality affected me I have rlly bad depression that's been affecting me for months. I prayed so fucking much. Why. Why tf would he do that if he cares. I didn't need to be stronger I needed goddamn help. It wasn't some season of doubt it was months (nearly a year) of praying and being ignored. My gf was the one who helped me, not
God
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I am posting this on both r/atheism and r/christianity. I want to get opinions from both sides to make sure I'm not making a mistake.
Many reasons caused this. I will tell you the ones that affected me most but there are far, far more.
God describes hell as worse than being born so why doesn't he just stop the people he knows will go to hell from being born. He can't create free will without evil right? Evil is there and the choice to turn away is because of free will. Yet there is free will in heaven. Couldn't he just do the sane for earth, or have just heaven. People who grew up in say Islam for example with no concept of Christianity will go to hell for believing in the wrong God. Everyone has smth that would make them convert, wether it's a miracle or seeing God themselves, or whatever it is. But why do only some get to see God, get miracles, why not all? God is either all powerful or all loving not both. Look at the world, he either can't help or doesn't care. And don't give me all that you need evil to see the good or it makes you stronger bullshit. Heaven is only good yet you don't remember your life on earth. Again why can't we just have heaven or earth working similar to heaven. The babies that die painful deaths, young children with cancer, older people dying in pain don't need to be stronger, they need help
A main reason for me personally. I prayed for months on end for God to bring me back. To give me a sign, anything to show me he's there. I was so pissed at him for making me gay. Because of how my sexuality affected me I have rlly bad depression that's been affecting me for months. I prayed so fucking much. Why. Why tf would he do that if he cares. I didn't need to be stronger I needed goddamn help. It wasn't some season of doubt it was months (nearly a year) of praying and being ignored. My gf was the one who helped me, not
God
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People of Iran are tired of freligious brainwashingq
They are protesting against an Islamist terrorist indoctrination regime that hasnt benefited them for over 40 years. Hope the Iranians will fight for their freedom and return to secularism
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They are protesting against an Islamist terrorist indoctrination regime that hasnt benefited them for over 40 years. Hope the Iranians will fight for their freedom and return to secularism
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Renee Good was also a Christian missionary
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g49wzw58yo
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'A beautiful spirit' - the Christian work of woman shot dead by ICE
Becca Hainsworth shared a room with Good during one of her stays in Northern Ireland and said her soul is crushed at the loss of her friend.
islam makes no sense and i will absolutely feel unsafe being in the same room as someone covering their whole damn face
as a woman i recently hesitated using the restroom in a fairly remote area, because i saw a person wearing a burqa (face and eyes covered) enter before me. im not even talking about covering your body or dressing modest to prevent evil gaze. but what is so vulgar about your face? why must you cover it in public? your face is your identity, there is absolutely no reason why u must cover it, if you are a muslim woman "choosing" to cover your face you're simply brainwashed. you make it very uncomfortable to be in the same room as you. islam has absolutely peer pressured them to do these things, the men in your religion are roaming freely but you don't get to do the same? make it make sense.
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as a woman i recently hesitated using the restroom in a fairly remote area, because i saw a person wearing a burqa (face and eyes covered) enter before me. im not even talking about covering your body or dressing modest to prevent evil gaze. but what is so vulgar about your face? why must you cover it in public? your face is your identity, there is absolutely no reason why u must cover it, if you are a muslim woman "choosing" to cover your face you're simply brainwashed. you make it very uncomfortable to be in the same room as you. islam has absolutely peer pressured them to do these things, the men in your religion are roaming freely but you don't get to do the same? make it make sense.
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Grandma wants me to wear a necklace with engraved Mary holding Jesus on it (vent and asking for advice)
Edit: Already got some good advice so it's not needed anymore I guess.
She just gave it to me and told me she and my grandpa (who passed away, btw) would be really happy if I wore it. Apperantly, I got it from them when I was born. Where I live, pretty much every baby gets few golden necklaces at birth and they usually have Christian symbols like this. The thing is, she and rest of my immidate family know I'm atheist and don't accept it. And she obviously had to do this in front of them. I don't want to wear something with religious symbols, but I also don't want to make fuss out of this situation. I'm already struggling because complete lack of support from my family over me being queer and atheist and I don't want to do things that could lead to things being even worse. What should I do? Can this be removed if it's engraved? Or can I at least bring it to a jewlery or something like to get something else engraved on the blank side?
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Edit: Already got some good advice so it's not needed anymore I guess.
She just gave it to me and told me she and my grandpa (who passed away, btw) would be really happy if I wore it. Apperantly, I got it from them when I was born. Where I live, pretty much every baby gets few golden necklaces at birth and they usually have Christian symbols like this. The thing is, she and rest of my immidate family know I'm atheist and don't accept it. And she obviously had to do this in front of them. I don't want to wear something with religious symbols, but I also don't want to make fuss out of this situation. I'm already struggling because complete lack of support from my family over me being queer and atheist and I don't want to do things that could lead to things being even worse. What should I do? Can this be removed if it's engraved? Or can I at least bring it to a jewlery or something like to get something else engraved on the blank side?
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My aunt told me this is what being an atheist does to you.
So I got bad marks even though all of the hardwork and studying. And my aunt told me that it could've not happened if you go to church praise to God and this that,.. only hardwork couldn't help, only if god wanted
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So I got bad marks even though all of the hardwork and studying. And my aunt told me that it could've not happened if you go to church praise to God and this that,.. only hardwork couldn't help, only if god wanted
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Christianity and Feminism
I truly can’t wrap my head around why women claim to be feminists then follow Christianity. The Bible is super sexist and misogynistic. The book condones and encourages silencing women, forcing them to cover up, punishing them for being graped, women being lesser than men, being slaves for their husband, being sold by their father. There is no rational explanation to call yourself a feminist and follow a abrahamic religion.
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I truly can’t wrap my head around why women claim to be feminists then follow Christianity. The Bible is super sexist and misogynistic. The book condones and encourages silencing women, forcing them to cover up, punishing them for being graped, women being lesser than men, being slaves for their husband, being sold by their father. There is no rational explanation to call yourself a feminist and follow a abrahamic religion.
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Christian Site Mocks "Toxic Empathy" For ICE Victim.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/01/christian-site-mocks-toxic-empathy-for-ice-victim/
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Christian Site Mocks "Toxic Empathy" For ICE Victim - Joe.My.God.
Ryan Helfenbein writes for the Christian Post: This tragedy was entirely avoidable, but because a mother decided her duty to obstruct law enforcement, try to flee, and accelerate straight at them superseded her duty to comply, she is now dead. Christians…