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I find it funny how Muslim Malaysians always say that "Exmuslims should shut up" or "Exmuslims are like the crazy ex to Islam" and all that but fail to acknowledge that Exmuslims are barking and biting because Malaysia has set of rules and laws that prohibit them from converting out from Islam and become non-Muslim, with reinforcement to rehabilitate such exmuslims.

By the Islamic law (Malaysia also practices partial Islamic law), an apostate can be punished with execution but thankfully, because the constitution does not recognised the power of the Shariah Court (a.k.a. Islamic Court) to gives out death sentence, it is just on papers.

Regardless, exmuslims are still oppressed in Malaysia, you like it or not and there are Muslims that empower the system that oppresses them.

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

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More than 2000 years of desperate coping and seething from apologists and theologians and they still have not actually resolved the Epicurean Paradox

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Percentage of People in US States Who Are “Highly Religious”

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could you define those words in that post about terminology, please?

“Is there a ghost kissing me right now?” is a metaphysical question, it asks about reality.

“How would I know if a ghost is kissing me right now?” is an epistemological question, it asks about how we acquire knowledge about reality.

“What does it actually mean for a ghost to kiss someone?” is an ontological question, it asks about the nature of reality.

“Is this ghost’s only purpose to kiss me?” is an teleological question, it asks for a reason for something’s existence.

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Study explains global rise in atheism and shows that atheists now outnumber theists in the UK

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welcome to creek hill church! your friendly local evangelical congregation. we have childcare every sunday for the little ones :) if you take a peak in you'll notice most of our nursery volunteers are girls between the ages of 11-16, their brothers are nowhere to be seen. in fact the vast majority of all our volunteers are women, running summer camps, fundraisers, community programs, prayer teams, events, supporting every church need. sometimes their husbands volunteer as ushers. of course all of our worship team leads are women who have been volunteering with worship for 10+ years, the worship pastor who directs all of them is a 28 year old man. if you're an unwed women here over the age of 22 you'll start to notice that every conversation is about if you're seeing someone and what kind of family you imagine for yourself someday. the married couples may stop talking to you, especially after they have children. wouldn't want those kids getting any ideas. most of the deacons are male. all the pastors except the children's pastor are male. a woman has never given a sermon here, though occasionally we'll let one speak for a few minutes if she's a single missionary. if she's married her husband will speak for her. the sunday school teachers for the young kids are women but the older ones have male teachers, we want to make sure they are being taught proper biblical truth. there's a women's study every thursday where we go through a book about how to be a godly woman. this church is your entire social circle and support network now, aren't you glad to be here? women are explicitly banned from being church elders

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Christianity isn't popular "because God is real".

It's popular because of a history in which conquerors and colonizers and other oppressors fought for centuries to force their populations to believe it, because christianity is a very useful tool that preconditions people for rule.

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When you are drenched in religion to the point your whole life revolves around it, when it’s in the food you eat and the air you breathe, it determines who you love, you are a scholar, a wise teacher, in your reality. Life is a formula, you know how to calculate your behavior, you have elder, mentors, family to tell you what to say, how to think.

When you start to find the flaws in the formula, the hypocrisy of your elders, the pain in your family, you become a child again. You don’t know anything, and you realize this whole time, you have a been a child, eating cereal out teachers’ hands, not questioning where it came from or what it’ll do to you. Suddenly you must grow up and you are years behind your peers. The community that you loved and loved you now holds you at a distance, even though they promised to hold your hand when times are hard. To earn love back from those you held close you must cut off the growth required to live outside the fold. And even then the love you receive is poisoned.

You swear, you know how to love. You knew how to live. You used to be wise. Now nothing makes sense and you know you are ignorant. The answers you memorized, chanted, and thrived off of before are vipers that kill. It is foolish to use them now.

How do you find truth so solid you don’t have to change who you are to hold it? How do you live from it without losing reality? And how do you think for yourself and grow from it without feeding off it like a helpless child?

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I don’t like stirring the pot, but it does bum me out that there is such a notion of atheism being this cold, asshole-ish belief system that is devoid of warmth and best kept to yourself. But I do think it’s beautiful? Like, I know the phrase “I think the fact there is no God or any form of higher power is beautiful” rings weird, but I think the fact that all of these random, unplanned forces acting on each other to create everything is like, empowering and lovely and hungry.

Belief is such a fundamental thing to a person so I understand why we don’t all get together and explain ourselves, but I feel like being a skeptic or humanist or whatever it is, there is such a shut-down of being assumed to be a dick and have nothing to add to the conversation about wonder or love for something.

I do feel love and belief and wonder at the universe. I am filled with overwhelming warmth for everything about it, just in a different way.

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Why you should stop using the argument “Well Other Atheist said that [they believe] Belief X!” when speaking to an atheist.

1. Prominent atheists are not religious leaders.

Y’all seem to be under the impression that prominent atheists have the authority to speak for atheists like religious leaders do for theists. They don’t. That’s not how atheism works. There are no leaders who dictate what one should believe, it’s entirely a matter of every man for himself. The only person any atheist can speak for is themselves. 

Sure, some beliefs have a rough, veeeery loose consensus, but that’s not because it’s an Atheist Belief™. It’s because the majority of us individually came to the same conclusion because when you don’t have the reasoning that “my god said so” some beliefs (e.g. homophobia) don’t have any justification to hold. 

2. No one cares what Other Atheist’s views on such-and-such are. 

Unless you’re doing something like crediting them for an argument you’re presenting or saying “I think Other Atheist explained my belief on this matter best” atheists don’t typically care who said they believe in what.

We’re a pretty irreverent bunch and not generally impressed by arguments from authority.

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okay not to be a pedant but if the united states being a christian nation renders a 'secular upbringing' impossible then by the same logic would having a jewish or muslim upbringing within the unites states not also be impossible. like this reasoning just seems so busted to me

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people on tumblr: OMG Christianity is SOOO bad, all of this sexism and homophobia, it's so evil, DNI Christians! also people on tumblr: if you suggest that women and lgbtq+ people are horrifically oppressed under any other religion and their tools of control are not empowering, you hate POC and especially lgbtq+ or femme POC (to be clear, I agree with you)

I'll start off by saying: I get where people are coming from. When you're part of a minority religious group, you already deal with enough bigotry, misunderstandings, and stereotypes. Even legitimate criticism can feel like just one more person piling on unfairly, and it's perfectly understandable to get defensive about it.

But I'm fucking over it. If you still act like Christianity is the only bad religion, or the only religion that's ever been used to hurt or control people, you are either astonishingly ignorant, or you are intentionally throwing victims of religious oppression under the bus in order to save face.

If you are capable of understanding that Christianity is used as a tool to control and abuse people, you are capable of understanding that other religions are used in identical ways. I don't think there's a religion on Earth that hasn't been used to justify abuse, bigotry, genocide, and all manner of atrocities. You don't get to say that just because you face illegitimate criticism means that nobody is allowed to make legitimate criticisms, and you don't get to act like being the victim of bigotry means that nobody is using your religion to perpetrate bigotry on others.

And as per my last post, it's incredibly damaging to victims of religious oppression to tell them that they're lying or exaggerating about their abuse because "X religion doesn't believe in that", or that it doesn't count because "well a REAL member of X would never act like that", or that they should stop talking about it because "well of course the way you were treated was wrong, but think about how you're making the rest of us look!" It's not okay when Christians do it, it's not okay when anyone else does it. We need to be supporting ALL victims of religious abuse.

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A massive pet peeve of mine is when US progressives say shit like “evangelical christians are terrible but so are hardcore atheists”. Like. even if every single atheist was the most insufferable debate bro imaginable, you get how… one of these groups has structural power that they’ve used for more than a century to prop up and direct state violence domestically and imperially. And the other is like. A random subset of normal people that also includes some redditors. These are not equally harmful communities.

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Atheist YouTube Masterpost (Update 2)

Apostate Aladdin - A look at Islam from an atheist perspective by a former Muslim.

Aron Ra - Mostly posts of his speeches at atheist conferences, responses to religious nonsense, and educational content relating to where the Bible gets science wrong as well as an awesome breakdown of major taxonomic sections.

Atheist Experience - A call-in show where anyone can call in to discuss religion. They prefer theist callers, but atheists who need advice on issues regarding being atheist (e.g. family conflict because of one’s atheism, how/if to come out, etc) are welcome to call in too.

Atheist Lowdown - Atheist Lowdown is a weekly secular news aggregate vlog intended for busy freethinkers, humanists, atheists, agnostics, and any combination thereof who want the latest coverage of religious violence and oppression, the efforts of likeminded nonbelievers, and other related stories. 

Cosmic Skeptic - A place for the discussion of philosophical topics ranging from the crucially important to the trivially interesting.

Dallas Wade – A channel with mostly video essays and reaction videos regarding Christianity.

Forrest Valkai – A channel by an evolutionary biologist where he talks about evolution and science as well as reacts to creationist videos. He’s very funny and friendly and his explanations are very approachable for laypeople of all levels.

Friendly Atheist - The YouTube channel of Hemant Mehta, a former member of the board of directors for Foundation Beyond Belief. He mostly discusses news and has a playlist where he discusses “Everything Wrong In Genesis in the Bible”. He also runs a website, friendlyatheist.com in case you prefer reading to viewing or listening.

Fundie to Frei - An ex-Jewish channel on "advice and awareness about growing up with religious fundamentalism and coping in the "afterlife" transition."

Genetically Modified Skeptic - An atheist look at various issues relating to religion.

Godless Bitches - The Godless Bitches is a podcast focusing on atheist issues from a feminist perspective featuring Vi La Bianca, Jenna Belk, Jen Aldrich, & guests. The show streams every 2nd & 4th Sundays of the month at 6pm directly after The Atheist Experience.

Godless Engineer - Focuses on response to religious videos. Also has a “Bible Study” series.

Godless Granny – “Atheist commentary on the Bible, women’s issues, LGBTQ issues, legal/ political and other current events. Intent is to invite discussion leading to critical thinking about religion and it’s effects on people.” If you’re interested in hearing from an older atheist who deconverted later in life,this is the channel for you.

Gutsick Gibbon – She’s a PhD student in Biological Anthropology, so her main area of interest is human evolution and debunking creationist misinformation. According to her, in her channel you can find content  “concerning primates, general zoology, paleontology, anthropology, and evolutionary biology.”

Holy Koolaid - A channel by Thomas Westbrook (a former Jehovah’s Witness) that features news, discussions about the Bible, discussions about the historicity of events in the Bible, and more. He has a playlist for “Nothing Fails Like Bible History” and also often looks at religious cults.

JaclynGlenn -  An atheist who talks about a variety of topics.

JeGaysus – I’m not really sure if he’s atheist (sometimes I think he might be, other times I’m not sure), but his gay Jesus persona is too funny not to share.

Jimmy Snow - A show with a mix of subject material, typically dealing with atheism and LGBT+-related stuff.

John Cedars - A range of videos aimed at dissecting the various teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses, as well as new developments in the religion. In particular, he tries to keep on top of the latest propaganda released by Watchtower by way of video rebuttals as much as possible.

Kristi Burke - An ex-Evangelical who discusses religion and atheism (mainly focuses on Christianity when talking about religion).

The Line - A call-in show similar to Atheist Experience started by Jimmy Snow.

Logicked – “Entertaining responses to bad arguments, with a focus on atheism and debunking religion.”

Matt Dillahunty - Matt Dillahunty’s personal YT channel.

Non-Prophets - The Non-Prophets focuses on atheism and the separation of church and state.

NonStampCollector - Lots of fantastic little animations regarding atheism.

Parenting Beyond Belief - Parenting Beyond Belief is a live call-in show every 2nd and 4th Saturday at 1pm Central dedicated to peer support and guidance for secular parents and those wanting to learn more about non-religious families.

Paulogia -  A former Christian takes a look at the claims of Christians, wherever science is being denied in the name of ancient books.

Professor Stick - Mostly does reply videos to debunk pseudoscience on the internet.

Prophet of Zod - Everything from satirical atheist cartoons to a guy with a static head and no discernible facial features talking about atheism-related stuff. His most popular section is a series on “Dumb Things People Say to Atheists”, where he very calmly and respectfully explains why what the thing is dumb and how best to respond.

Rachel Oates - A channel which deals with a variety of sujects, from poetry to atheist news to book reviews of religious books and more. 

Secular Sexuality -  Secular Sexuality is a weekly call-in show live from Austin, Texas every Thursday at 7pm CT where they talk about sex from a secular perspective.

Shannon Q - An atheist who talks about a variety of topics.

Secular Spirit - An ex-Muslim who talks about religion and atheism.

Sir Sic – A reaction video channel where the host is a cartoon knight.

Skeptics & Scoundrels – A very new channel by an atheist ex-JW. I personally like him already. Before talking about why he disagrees with the paster he’s responding to, he makes a point of finding something nice to say about the person (“Your beard is cool – baby birds could nest in that thing!”), which I think it’s a neat and unique approach. He doesn’t have a lot of videos yet but give it time. :)

The SkepTick – A pretty fun channel of mostly reaction vids reacting to religious videos.

Sound of Science – Mostly a reaction video blog regarding unscientific beliefs.

Suris the Skeptic - He tackle issues of religion, morality, philosophy, and a touch of science.

Talk Heathen - Talk Heathen is a weekly call-in television show in Austin, Texas geared toward long-form and on-going dialogue with theists & atheists about religion, theism, & secularism.

Telltale - Typically looks at cults and religion-related news.

The Thinking Atheist – Typically video essays and the visual version of a podcast by the same name. The host’s voice sounds exactly like an old-timey radio announcer. lol

TMM – A channel mostly featuring reactions to Christian content.

Truth Wanted - A show similar to Atheist Experience and Talk Heathen, it focuses on how and why people believe what they believe, and how you can talk about beliefs in more effective ways.

Viced Rhino - Response videos to pseudo-scientific nonsense on YouTube.