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Calling all unbelievers!
Theism has ruled the world for much too long and it's long past time to de-normalize the God delusion. If you're a non-theist who follows me and you interact with this post, I'll follow you back. 130 recommended non-theist accounts listed below.
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Christians: If surgically modifying one's body in regard to gender is wrong because it defies "how God created you", then why are breast implants, butt lifts, tummy tucks, liposuction, and other plastic surgeries okay?
People often ask me why I speak out so much about a God I don't believe in. The post below is a good example of why. OTHER PEOPLE believe in God to such an absurd degree that they want all things to be subsumed under their version of theism. I will not be silent about that.
God is not love.
God is not great.
God is not good.
God is not patient.
God is not merciful.
God is not omniscient.
God is not omnipotent.
GOD IS NOT REAL.
I'm an equal opportunity blasphemer:
—Islam is bunk.
—Judaism is bunk.
—Hinduism is bunk.
—Pantheism is bunk.
—Polytheism is bunk.
—Christianity is bunk.
—Mormonism is bunk.
—Any ideology that purports supernatural "souls" or "gods" or "fundamental consciousness" is bunk.
I'd ask him to confirm or deny if he's the same God who drowned all creation, murdered the firstborn of a nation, and annihilated fetuses, infants, children, and animals for nothing more than the "sin" of being born to the "wrong" parents. If yes, I'd tell him to fuck right off.
Tax. The. Fucking. Churches.
This nonbeliever is tired of helping subsidize a support system that perpetuates fictions and dogmas that I don't believe in, agree with, or wish to have foisted—either blatantly or subtly—upon my governments, judiciaries, or educational systems.
Calling all atheists!
If you're an atheist, non-theist, or agnostic who follows me and you like, comment on, or retweet this, I will follow you back. We need to build a strong community of people to counter the nonsense that has co-opted our world for much too long.
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"Atheism is only rejecting a claim that there is a God. Atheism isn't a belief system. This is atheism in a nutshell:
You say: 'There is a God.'
I say: 'Can you prove that?'
You say: 'No.'
I say: 'I don't believe you then.'"
—
@rickygervais
Christians, the fact that Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are the most outspoken proponents for Christian Nationalism in Congress should tell you something very important about your religion.
There is no God. There is no Son of God. There is no Holy Spirit. There are no souls. There are no spirits. There is no afterlife. There is no heaven. There is no hell. There is no sin.
Liberate yourself from the tyranny of the nonexistent.
Happy Sunday. ⚛️
Calling all atheists!
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How did I end up atheist after being a Christian for over 25 years? By taking Christianity and the Bible more seriously than I ever had before in order to win some Mormon friends to Christianity. My deep dive into theology and the origins of the Bible was what made me an atheist.
Reading the Bible many times, as well as researching the origins of the Biblical texts and the history of how those texts were written, edited, redacted, reedited, translated, selected, spliced, collected, collated, and assembled is precisely what made me an atheist.
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During 2 years of being an outspoken atheist on Twitter, I've realized that it's not so much belief in gods that specifically motivates my activism as it is MENTAL DUMBFUCKERY in general. Humans saying stupid shit in defense of illogical beliefs is what motivates me to speak out.
—There are no gods.
—There are no souls.
—Holy books are myth.
—There is nothing immaterial.
—There is nothing supernatural.
—There is nothing worth deifying.
—Consciousness is not fundamental.
—There is no such thing as "nothing".
—No one can KNOW anything with 100% certainty.
Dear Christian: Still feeling mocked, disrespected, marginalized, and oppressed after the Olympics ceremony? I feel your pain—it's delicious. Christianity has been mocking, disrespecting, marginalizing, and oppressing non-Christians since Christ. How's your own medicine taste?
I don't know who needs to hear this today, but you aren't a sinner. You aren't displeasing any God. You don't need forgiveness for being born or being you. You aren't unworthy. You aren't going to hell.
Because there's no God and no hell, and your existence requires no excuse.
So you believe in the power of prophecy? Atheists have been predicting for over 2000 years that Jesus won't return and God won't show himself, and they've been 100% right 100% of the time. There's no more accurate prophecy in the history of humanity than the prophecy of atheists.
God is a lie.
The Garden of Eden is a lie.
Adam and Eve are a lie.
Satan is a lie.
Sin is a lie.
The Fall is a lie.
The Son of God is a lie.
The resurrection is a lie.
Heaven is a lie.
Hell is a lie.
Demons are a lie.
Angels are a lie.
Souls are a lie.
QUIT LYING, CHRISTIANS.
Oh, the irony... Reading the Bible many times over is one of the main reasons I became an atheist. Christians often presume that reading the Bible leads to conviction and faith, when in reality it leads many to the complete deconstruction of their faith. The Bible is absurd. ;)
No one has a soul.
No one has a spirit.
No one experiences God.
No one interacts with ghosts.
Spirits, souls, gods, and ghosts are figments of the imagination. It's time for humans to graduate from magical thinking to a more rational and productive view of reality.
If you homeschool your children because you fear "liberal indoctrination", then what you really fear isn't liberal indoctrination—what you REALLY fear is the idea that your children might actually be able to think for themselves.
It's become clear from my interactions on Twitter over the last year that one of the biggest reasons most theists scoff at evolution is that they have, at BEST, a grade school understanding of it. You can't properly evaluate the validity of a concept that you don't understand.
Dear Christians, if the interpretation of Dionysus—the Greek god of wine and revelry—in the style of "The Feast of the Gods" strikes you as a mockery of The Last Supper, perhaps it's because the Dionysus mythos provided the very imagery upon which your secondhand Christ is based.
LOL, "profanity"... What makes the word "fuck" profane when sex, intercourse, coitus, copulation, fornication, lovemaking, and humping are not? Is it because it has 4 letters? Because it begins with an "f" and ends with a "k"? Or because humans are irrational, uptight creatures?
No original Biblical texts exist, and the earliest copies of the Pentateuch postdate the events they describe by millennia. Do you know what that means? It means that the story of original sin that forms the entire basis of Christianity is untethered from any credible provenance.
Theists who say atheists have no basis for making moral assessments of "good", "evil", "right', "wrong", "should", "ought", etc. are doing nothing more than admitting their own lack of an empathic compass. Needing a God to define your morality implies that you're amoral yourself.
@JamesLucasIT
We've built aircraft, spacecraft, skyscrapers, highway systems, MRI machines, space telescopes, self-landing rockets, particle accelerators, cruise ships, the Internet, smart phones, just to name a few.
What in the fuck makes you think that humans stopped building wonders?
Why do I talk so much about God? Because theism, mainly Christianity, has permeated our governments and judiciaries, motivated a coup, repealed a woman's right to choose, curtailed the rights of LGBTQ people, and is seeking to dissolve the separation between church and state. 🧵
I believe that Yahweh is a fraud.
I believe that Allah is a fraud.
I believe that Jesus was a fraud.
I believe that Muhammad was a fraud.
I believe that Christianity is a fraud.
I believe that Islam is a fraud.
I believe that Judaism is a fraud.
I believe that theism is a fraud.
Dear atheists, if you're in a debate about the existence of God and a theist says anything like "Yeah, but atheists have no basis for morality", you know immediately that the theist has no credible arguments, because they've just fallaciously raised a red herring and/or strawman.
If Eve ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil AFTER God told her not to, then by the Bible's own claim she clearly had no way of discerning good from evil BEFORE she made the decision to eat, and thus could not be guilty for willfully disobeying God in the first place.
Atheism is not nihilism. Nihilism is the position that life is meaningless. Atheism is the position that WE give life meaning, not some fictional deity.
Telling kids that God exists is an act of indoctrination. Telling kids that humans evolved from an ancestor shared with chimps is an act of teaching. If you don't understand the difference, you may want to consider the likelihood that you're a victim of indoctrination yourself.
@GodlessLiz
Fuck you, your agenda. And your self appointed moral high ground. Godless libs do nothing for society but worsen it. Your opinion is irrelevant as with any liberal but go ahead and tell me I have nothing intelligent to say for a third time. Seek god you miserable cunt
The idea that atheists have no reasonable justification to be moral is one of the most asinine claims you'll hear from theists. No "reasonable justification"? How about the fact that we have empathy and want to get along peacefully and successfully with other humans? GTFO morons.
Did Jesus exist? It depends on which Jesus you're talking about. If we're talking merely the HISTORICAL Jesus, then it's possible that such a man MAY have existed. But if we're talking the DIVINE SON OF GOD Jesus who rose from the dead, then no, of course not. Know your Jesuses.
1. The burden of proof lies on the one making the claim.
2. "God" must be claimed before "God" can be rejected.
3. The burden of proof lies on the theist.
It's really that simple.
A simple little proof of the nonexistence of God...
1: Nothing outside of material reality exists.
2: God is outside of material reality.
3: God does not exist.
Feel free to disprove my proof—no one has done so yet.
De-normalize theism. Belief in God is a primitive and archaic reaction to the unknown that has no serious place in the human quest for the betterment of our species. Theism retards, rather than accelerates, meaningful progress towards better societies and a better world.
—Sin is a lie.
—God is a lie.
—Souls are a lie.
—Hell is a lie.
—Heaven is a lie.
—Christ was not God.
—Salvation is not needed.
Don't swallow the lies you've been fed. The truth may not be as comforting as you'd like, but at least it's true.
Happy Sunday!
The idea that a woman needs a husband and children to give her meaning and fulfillment in life is one of the most heinous lies perpetrated on women by other humans.
Religions are dying because the falsehoods they're based on can no longer easily survive the relentless advance of science and the increased scrutiny and exposure that the Information Age has brought to bear. The darkness of falsehood is being dispelled by the light of knowledge.
An average of 4.3 humans are born every second.
An average of 1.8 humans die every second.
If you buy into the "declining birthrate" fearmongering, you either aren't familiar with the statistics or are perhaps one of the fearmongers yourself. Stop the madness, and the breeding.
Dear Christians: No God worth worshipping would give a hot flying fuck about the results of your sports competition. You do nothing but cheapen and trivialize the already absurd concept of God by casting him as the personal agent of your achievements in contrast to others.
Christianity isn't true, it's just a very successful lie. Christianity is easily as implausible as any religion, but it's been relentlessly normalized over centuries after a huge initial boost by the Roman Empire until folks became inured to, and accepting of, its absurd claims.
If you believe God, you're a theist.
If you follow God, you're a disciple.
If you defend God, you're an apologist.
If you promote God, you're an evangelist.
If you truly understand "God", you're an atheist.
There are no credible reasons for God to have gone silent except for nonexistence. An omniscient God wouldn't need to test for true faith by playing hide and seek and an intelligent God wouldn't expect humans to take the word of other humans in such a supposedly high stakes game.
Religion was normalized in large part because science was not yet advanced enough to shine a light into the knowledge gaps where the absurdity of "God" could potentially hide. Though theism will likely always exist, how long will it be before it's officially labeled as delusion?
God populated the world from two people, forcing Adam's sons to have sex with their mother or their sisters, then destroyed all but eight people in a global flood, forcing more incest for repopulation, and plans to destroy the Earth again. Such a loving and resourceful Creator...
Dear theists, let me get this straight: God can create the universe, answer prayers, part the sea, heal the sick, provide and bless your food, save believers and punish unbelievers, but He's unable to create or manage money so He has to solicit tithes and donations from humans?
I was a Christian for over half my life, but came to realize that theism is like a house built on the sand—its foundations quickly wash away in the tide of honest scrutiny. Theism has serious, adverse, real world impacts that are dangerous to humanity—so no, I will not be silent.
The fact that so many Christians still adamantly believe that the gospels were written by known eyewitnesses is testimony to the indoctrination and miseducation within Christianity—they don't even have an accurate and honest understanding of the provenance of their own holy book.
Atheist: I don't believe in God.
Theist: You don't know how the universe began or how life started or how consciousness works or where all the transitional fossils are or what our purpose is. And you sure as heck don't have any morals.
Atheist: Uh-huh. I don't believe in God.
NOTHING is a "sin". "Sin" is a bogus concept invented by credulous and judgmental people to coerce other credulous people into fearing the shame and judgment of a fabricated God. Liberate yourself from the tyranny of mythical dictators who can condemn you to imaginary punishment.
Things I believe (2024 version):
—There are no gods.
—There are no souls.
—There is no afterlife.
—Holy books are myth.
—Nothing is immaterial.
—Nothing is supernatural.
—Nothing is worth deifying.
—Consciousness isn't fundamental.
—No one can KNOW anything with 100% certainty.
I was a Christian for half my life. I've heard ALL the evidence. In the end, it was a deep and thorough review and rehash of ALL the evidence in a desperate attempt to keep my faith that led to my eventual atheism. Theism is bunk precisely because there IS NO credible evidence.
@McClureShawn
I seriously doubt you’ve honestly looked at the evidence. You have a bias and refuse to listen to anything that doesn’t support your dogma.
Christians believe the claims of the Bible because they believe the Bible is the word of God, and they believe the Bible is the word of God because it says in the Bible that the Bible is the word of God. If the absurdity of this logic isn't obvious to you, you may be a Christian.
Man decides what God did.
Man decides what God does.
Man decides what God wants.
Man decides what God chooses.
Man decides what God commands.
Man decides what God 𝘪𝘴.
Man decides that God 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴.
Believing in God is like the tail wagging the dog.
Those speaking of "angry atheists" are likely conflating atheism with antitheism. Atheists alone don't have a dog in the fight (or fight God). ANTITHEISTS do. I'm both. Believe what you will, but keep your beliefs THE FUCK out of governments, judiciaries, politics, and schools.
"There are no particles and forces that could contain the information in your brain after you die. There’s no way for some sort of extra material spirit to persist after your body has ceased to exist."
Things that may have existed:
—A preacher named Jesus
Things that don't exist and never did:
—The Lord
—The Savior
—The Messiah
—Son of God
—Son of Man
—Lamb of God
—Word of God
—King of Kings
—Alpha and Omega
—The Living Water
—The Bread of Life
—The Way, the Truth, the Life
When abiogenesis is definitively demonstrated in a lab, will that be the final nail in the coffin of theism?
No.
Because theism—no matter how adamantly theists claim otherwise—isn't based on logic and reason, it's based on faith and hope in pursuit of what one WANTS to be true.
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—God tells man not to do evil. Evil prevails.
—God tries to destroy evil by drowning the world. Evil prevails.
—God tries to destroy evil by sacrificing his son. Evil prevails.
I suppose one COULD consider this a problem of evil.
Or as evidence that God is fictional.
Serpents and donkeys don't talk.
Evil angels don't have sex with Earth women.
Virgins don't get pregnant
Water doesn't turn to wine.
No one walks on water.
Dead people don't resurrect.
Gods don't exist.
Sons of Gods don't exist.
Unfuck your brain if you believe otherwise.
To Christians, the environment is expendable. When you believe that God has given man "dominion" over all creatures (Gen 1:28) and that the Earth will be destroyed after the 2nd Coming of Christ, you simply don't have the same sense of urgency and preciousness about the Earth.
Then send the po-po now, 'cause I'm a chronic blasphemer:
—Islam is bunk.
—Judaism is bunk.
—Hinduism is bunk.
—Pantheism is bunk.
—Polytheism is bunk.
—Christianity is bunk.
—Mormonism is bunk.
I went from silent atheist to vocal atheist after the SCOTUS repeal of Roe v Wade. I'm no fan of abortion, but I'm a fan of the right to choose AND of the separation of church and state, and the repeal convinced me that remaining silent was no longer a responsible option for me.
Jesus, if he lived at all, is long since dead and was never God, and there is no credible evidence that ANYTHING supernatural actually exists.
Can we all just be reasonable adults and quit deifying and reifying fiction? Mortality may be scary, but that doesn't justify absurdity.
Why do theists think that the Big Bang Theory implies that "something came from NOTHING"? The singularity is theorized to have contained ALL the energy and spacetime of the Universe at infinite density, which would merely imply that "everything came from EVERYTHING".
@RickWatt9
@atheist_bad
Reason and logic? Atheists believe the universe either came into existence out of nothing (which they have no evidence for and is illogical) or that the universe is eternal / infinite regress (also no evidence and illogical) or a multiverse (again, no evidence and illogical) 1/2
There are no gifts from God.
There is no grace from God.
There is no mercy from God.
There are no miracles from God.
There are no blessings from God.
There is no forgiveness from God.
There is no salvation from God.
There is no God. Pull "God" out and unfuck your brain.
As a former Christian now atheist, even if I were able to muster BELIEF in God again, I don't think I couldn't muster the desire to WORSHIP God again, after having seen with new eyes, after my de-conversion, the truth of God's genocidal, murderous, bigoted, unjust "nature".