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A deity that would be upset at you breaking their rules in extenuating circumstances such as to save a life isn’t worth worshipping.

E.g. When Sikh doctors in Canada cut their beards to properly use masks to serve covid patients, Muslim women who work in labs with Bunsen burners taking off their hijab/niqab to work, etc.

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Since the original OP turned off reblogs, here, exit polls.

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Some shitty userboxes I've made if you even care

They're focused on transphobia, intersexism and anti-Arab racism in the exmuslim community

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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