I hate organized religion with a passion. You bet your ass I was “catholic” when my grandfather passed and I was helping my grandmother with the funeral though. Im an atheist, not an asshole. I’m sure if their imaginary friend actually exists they can forgive me for pretending to believe to console my grieving grandmother
All I know is i’ve never had an athiest knock on my door too damned early on a Saturday morning to tell desperatly try to get me to believe in their particular lack of belief.
This is Adam Conover slander.
Also, “Um, Actually” is a different College Humor/Dropout show.
Um, actually, Adam Connover has appeared on Um, Actually multiple times
Hell Yeaaah!! On my Reddit atheist daily planner I have this scheduled for 2 pm
This post is like a litmus test for separating pretentious reddit atheists from people who can actually take a joke, bravo
Well yeah, but she won’t care then either.
Reddit atheists were like the gamergate of secularism.
only people i’ve seen torment the dying at their beside is the christians.
always the same spiel… repent while you can, save your soul from eternal damnation. if you don’t repent you’ll spend all eternity in fire and torture, etc etc etc.
Which isn’t even in the bible afaiu?
Since when have Christians, especially the loud ones, based their beliefs on a book they’ve never read?
I love how this meme could be interpreted as “I’m glad to be burried next to my husband”
Yea this totally happens in real life. Deeeeefinitely not a strawman you made up to feel better about yourself.
Sir, this is a shitpost community
Sir, this is a shitpost
which is in a shitpost community
What is it with people these days that atheism is suddenly considered a bad thing?
Is it better to live with a psychosis, believing that you have a persona relationship with a sky creature that also talks back to you and helps specially you?
And no, most atheists aren’t the type of asshole who would start jeering against a grandmother who just wants to be with her dead husband again.
I think the edgy and outspoken atheist Redditor archetype has had a negative effect on people’s view of atheists in general.
I don’t totally disagree with that view and I do enjoy memes like this one
Also because atheists are a lot like vegans. How do you know if someone’s a vegan? You probably have to be told, because you aren’t paying that much attention to what other people are eating.
A lot of religious people only notice atheists when they’re being annoying. If you’re a Christian who’s not annoying about it, it’s not like you’re asking people to do stuff when a Christian would be busy, you’re more likely to default to assuming they just go to a different church.
There’s also people who take being told when it’s relevant as a pushy annoyance
I don’t think this paints all of atheism as a bad thing, just satirizes militant atheists who struggle with the fact that others can peacefully hold beliefs that are incompatible with their own. Reddit’s full of them, and they’re the equivalent of the evangelizing Christian that jumps on the “you need Jesus” spiel at the first whiff of non-Christian views.
In my (atheist) opinion, the two are equally obnoxious.
What is it with people these days that atheism is suddenly considered a bad thing?
People who need the existential fear of eternal damnation to keep from raping, assaulting, etc etc cant stand the idea of there being people who exist who don’t need an existential threat to just be decent people.
I feel like atheism has always been considered a bad thing? It’s more widely accepted now than it ever has been.
I totally agree it is the more logical belief, but, religious types not liking non-believers is nothing new
There’s so many religious influence types these days that spend the entire time hating on atheists. They put out content like “ONE question that THE GODLESS™ CAN’T answer” and it’s always something like “if humans evolved from apes, why are they still apes around” or something equally dumb.
It’s always the type that sees science as the enemy. As if it’s a competition.
Yeah but again, is that anything new? From my observations it isn’t
What is it with people these days that atheism is suddenly considered a bad thing?
Sir, this is just a joke.
This and phrases like ‘my brother in christ’ are pushed heavily in memes as subversive religious programming.
Let’s be honest: Going “(Your) God isn’t real” when someone tells you a “God bless you” is straight disrespectful. It’s their way of wishing you good things.
I have an helenist friend whom I’d reply “Let’s hope for it” if they said “hope the Gods are with us on this”. Am I a Helenist? No.
I tell my dad a “You too!” when he says “may God protect you on your way!”. Am I a Christian? Nope!
But is this their way of wishing someone a good day/good luck? Yes. The intention is what counts, after all.
Ah fuck that.
I don’t think that many atheist would display this religious behavior, because this is the shit that religious types do all the fucking time
This meme is basically “every accusation is a confession”
Well, I do see tons of atheists do it. If your reality is different than mine, this is not my problem. I talked about mine, you stay on yours.
Yeah, speaking as a pagan, literally every stripe of religious people has annoying as shit people. Often they’re people who feel insecure in their beliefs whether because they’re new to them or because they feel those beliefs are under attack.
Like yeah, I’ve met those annoying atheists as well as atheists who I only knew were such because it came up. Several of my childhood friends went from the former to the latter.
I will say though, atheists don’t try to make their religious beliefs legally mandatory, so I’ll take some annoyance over that.
This is me when a mainline christian says there’s another angel in heaven. Umm, ackchyually… Angels are non-corporeal creatures, having spirit but not bodies, and humans are corporeal creatures having both spirit and body. A human becoming an angel (a completely different species) is akin to a human becoming a lizard, or vice versa.
Thank you for this gem
Every accusation is a confession with the religious.
This too
The sort of atheist this meme addresses treats atheism like a religion.
As an atheist, I never bring up my beliefs unless asked. My religious friends and relatives on social media spout their shit non-stop. If I did 1/10th of that they’d be up in arms.
This post just seems like a straw man to try and keep atheists invisible.
This post just seems like a straw man to
try and keep atheists invisible.farm engagement.It doubles up on religious debate, and hating on Reddit.
Annoying militant atheists are definitely rarer than annoying militant christians, but they do exist. Especially on reddit. One of the reasons I enjoy lemmy is that those people are rarer.
Fun side fact: I knew one of my two best friends for over a decade before finding out they were christian. They had been wearing the same cross necklace under their shirt that whole time. We just never talked about it because it didn’t come up and they aren’t preachy.
Correct, plus if it’s reddit it’s possibly a bot created specifically to make that straw man real. Christians in particular have a persecution fetish, after all.
Eh I mean I was there 15 years ago when /r/atheism was a default subreddit (when default subreddits were a thing, nowadays I believe that’s no longer the case). Some of the commenters/posters seemed like they’d be genuinely exhausting people in real life. Not a majority by any means, otherwise I would’ve unsubscribed fairly quickly.
They found Russian agents working through social media to widen rifts in the US electorate, specifically on the vaccine debate. They had agents playing both sides: pro-vax and anti-vax.
Who knows how many entities are doing this right now? On which topics? On which social networks?
So, yes, fake atheists being assholes, but also fake Christians being assholes. You are always being manipulated. There is never a time you are not being manipulated.
You are not immune to propaganda
I am not immune to propaganda
We are not immune to propaganda! ☭
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gold
Well then isn’t it refreshing that a real human stole that reddit bot post who stole it from a human on twitter and gave it to us here on Lemmy, restoring it back to human-to-human sharing.
Don’t worry. I got you covered. I whine about religion all the time and make sure to mention I’m an atheist. As you said, they’re constantly pushing their thing down other people’s throats. If they can’t handle the comments, they should keep it to themselves. The same way they want gay people to keep it to themselves.
yeah this is the part that slays me. “vocal atheists are so annoying”
asshole, how many times have atheists knocked on your door?
how many atheists did you encounter on your way to your pap smear at planned parenthood?
fucking hypocrites, child rapists and child rape accomplices.
