#proud atheist

[katiesteedart]

I don't know what this is - it's from a quote I found on Pinterest and I painted it kind of as a test for my new cards.. Very dumb.

Painted 6/10/24

Title - untitled because? I'm an atheist

[nirivenova]

I'm not desperate enough to believe in a deity and I'm not foolish enough to worship one

[drmonkeysetroscans]

Don’t believe in the devils you made up.

[gardenvarietyhuman]

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. In all my years, I see less and less to convince me there are gods. Rather, I find evidence to the contrary.

Like by boy Confucius said, “We have two lives, and second one begins when we realize we have one.”

I’m glad I have this one life to enjoy as my atoms swirl through the galaxy.

[simplysmitten]

Many people act astonished when they find out I'm an atheist and usually respond with "oh so you don't believe in anything?" or "what's is the point of your life then?" Or "what if you're wrong"

Which is, of course, insane!

I believe in life, love, liberty, the quest for knowledge, freedom, humanity, beauty! I believe the whole point of life is LIVING IT. I could've been a piece of dust floating in space but no. I'm here, I'm human. I get to feel, I get to love, I get to experience. I get to wake up to my cat's melodic meow, I get to move and use my muscles, I get to come home to my dog's tail wagging everyday, I get to kiss and tell my parents I love them everyday! I get to do good things with my hands, I get to make an actual difference in someone's life, every single day. No I don't believe some god is responsible for it all, humanity has been creating and dismantling religions since the dawn of influence. No, we made our world. Us. Humans. Just as we continue to. And if I am wrong at the end and I should stand before some being I'll be able to accept any fate because my life was worth every second of it. I don't need a book to tell me how to live a good life. No one does.

To love is to live, and to live is to love. It's honestly that simple.

[ihavea-tummyache]

Poem #1:

[giantkillerjack]

Did you know that every time a trans person or a fat person wears a crop top, an angel gets gender reaffirming surgery and rebels against the heavenly hegemony? And also when a fat trans person wears a crop top, God loses another tooth?? It's true.

[starmansdaydreams]

when I was in first and second grade I went to a christian school that believed dinosaurs were a hoax invented by scientists to disprove the existence of god. as a kid that was heavily fixated on dinosaurs I got into many heated arguments with both my teachers and the principal. they also believed in christian martyr bullshit, very strange school all together.

Real question:

Put your denomination in the tags if yes!

[pimo-and-sad-about-it]

I can't believe I took a whole class just studying the lives of 15 old, homophobic, mostly white men. Like, wow. I really did that. It's so wild how obsessed mormons are with the apostles. It's like, creepy, guys. Why do I need to know their previous professions or where they're from. Who cares if the president of the sexist homophobic racist church has perfect pitch. Sorry Russell, it doesn't matter how many jokes you make about green bananas, that doesn't mean that you're called of god.

[astrxealis]

i will return on tumblr soon bcs i'm graduating hs soon and acads r done so i have a Lot of time on my hands for now Anyway can i just say am very proud of myself. got into the Top 1 school in my country, top campus, and a vv competitive stem course. yay 😁💝💘❤️‍🔥✨

[katiesteedart]

#KatieSteedArt

Title - Pontius

One of my first drawings. I make sure people see it when they come to the door...

[nirivenova]

The unfriendly neighborhood religious ghouls are picketing on the street corner.

"Keep Christ in Christmas"

Um...yeah. Christ is in Christmas. If you could read you'd fucking know that. Also, Christmas has nothing to do with Yule, which was appropriated along with its iconography to sweeten the force feeding of the shitty fable. And to this I say,

KEEP CHRIST OUT OF YULE

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

[drmonkeysetroscans]

Christians persecuting non believers.

[orcelito]

I've always known that my dad loved us, but nothing's driven that home as much as everything we've found in the After.

Our prominence in his home (pictures, father's day cards, gifts on display, the letter), the way he prioritized us... and a damned good life insurance policy, set up specifically so that if he died early (always a possibility, since driving jobs are more dangerous than many) then we would have enough to get ourselves Set.

He raised us to become as independent as possible as soon as possible. Made sure we knew how to cook, clean, handle our finances (though he was hilariously kind of bad at that, himself), and much more. I've been doing my own laundry since I was about 10 years old, so it's a surprise when I hear about people going off to college still not knowing. Utterly unimaginable to me.

He wanted us to finish college so we could live more comfortable lives than he did. My sister accomplished this in good time. I have not. But with his final gift to us, this life insurance money, it's a very real thing I could do. I could Realistically pay for the rest of my schooling and not even have to work through it. And in not having to work as I take classes, I can dedicate myself to them more thoroughly than ever before, and hopefully Finally finish my degree.

Just as he wanted for me.

I'll always miss him, since having him in my life was worth more than any amount of money I could have. But I'll always be grateful to him for everything he gave to me.

I dont need a mother, however much mine is trying to scrabble for us right now. I haven't had a true mother in a long time (or maybe Ever).

Instead, I had the best father I could've ever asked for. He was the only parent I needed.

[creekfiend]

Wow I just caught up on the "culturally christian" "discourse" due to being the type of jew who is allergic to being Part Of Jumblr and uh

Confused

I would be more than willing to have some good faith discussions w non-Jewish atheists about their feelings about the imprecise use of this term; with people who have Christianity Trauma who politely request to not be Called Christians even if that is part of their cultural background or upbringing (I am happy to not do this & always try to say ppl from culturally christian backgrounds because like... identity and Christianity are complex and I know and love a lot of people who have been horribly hurt by Christianity and I don't think it is productive or kind to insist to those people that they be aligned in some way identitywise with the institutions that have hurt them! As a jew I understand trauma very well and a lot of interacting with people and groups who have a lot of trauma is meeting them where they are, imo. I think it's important to do that.

But (you knew the but was coming)

I am UTTERLY BEWILDERED that even the people who are on the side of "this term is useless and you are stupid for using it" who seem to have like, interesting philosophical perspectives and mostly seem to not be engaged in outright antisemitism themselves ARE NEVERTHELESS happily rubbing shoulders w people who call jews and anyone who believes in anything "unscientific" 'fairytale cultists' and who happily assert that the very act of believing stuff that cannot be Obejctively Proven is like, oppressive and harmful

And if ppl are on your post saying antisemitic things and you do not block them or go "hey whoa uhhh let's not do that" then I don't trust you!

And like also

A lot of the jews participating in this discussion are getting violent anons calling them kikes and saying they should die in horrible ways!

WOW. THIS IS WILD AND UM. KIND OF DEEPLY ALARMING. TO ME. HI. WHAT THE FUCK.

[scattered-winter]

man it just really sucks having to go through all the motions and acting like i'm happy and proud of my family members when i'm really, really fucking not. sick of this shit