#I'm an atheist

[fellthemarvelous]

If guardian angels are real, I can only hope mine is like Aziraphale.

#good omens #aziraphale #i'm an atheist #but aziraphale would be MY choice if i got to choose a guardian angel

[beggars-opera]

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN MY SIBLINGS IN CHRIST

#I'm an atheist #I wish I could find this in better quality

[insomniacirl]

TNTduo but they're Wolfstar variants au, I say into the microphone.

The crowd boos, I begin to walk off stage shamefully.

"No, let them cook."

I look back, it's God, floating omnipotently.

The crowd goes wild.

#TNTduo #QSMP #Wilbur #Wilbur Soot #Quackity #Alex Quackity #Wolfstar #AU #I couldn't tell you what prompted me to write this #I don't know what's going on to be honest #It's 2am rn #Guys #Guys I'm lost in the sauce #I'm an atheist #I'm not going to lie to you right now.

[xbuster]

average christians in anime are always depicted as catholic (and they're either really cool or really fucked up just like irl) where is my evil evangelical christian rep in anime

They either default to Catholic (like Hazuki from Ojamajo Doremi) because of idolatry (in the eyes of a Protestant) or they're just some nameless form of Protestantism (like Inori from Fresh Precure), obviously because Christians in Japan are a very small minority, so most anime with Christian imagery will adopt Christian symbolism without any meaning. It's hard to even consider them "Christian" characters because there's absolutely no depth to their beliefs, it's just meant to be a generic feeling show of faith, so good luck with seeing any evil evangelicals. They're not really interested in Christian politics, just the aesthetics.

Inori wasn't actually Catholic; we only see her once (iirc) in a church and it's completely bare of any religious iconography despite being a church to keep her religiosity incredibly vague (despite her name meaning "prayer" and her being the "Precure of faith"). I just call her that because Catholics are more fun to make jokes about than Protestants. Inori's nothing church:

Hazuki is Catholic because of this.

#everyone who follows me should already know this but i am not a christian lol #i'm an atheist #i just find portrayals of christianity in anime interesting because it's usually incredibly shallow

[nightqueen1221]

I going to to Hell. Not because I'm a bad person, but because a highway to Hell just sounds a lot better than a stairway to Heaven.

#I'm just to lazy #Could it be like... an escalator? #Elevator? #Actually I'm not going to either #I'm an atheist

[mzyraj]

There was this guy a couple thousand years ago who did some wild shit and look at the world now

#I'm an atheist #though raised christian #and I love and have studied history #so when you take out the mysticism how different was he from odd fanatics nowadays? #what would the world look like now if he hadn't existed or had just passed in obscurity? #I'd love to see into alternate dimensions for this stuff

[angelinthefire]

I can't get upset about cut lines very much anymore. Like, it would have been better to see it on screen. But. It’s like different gospels imo. The thief crucified next to Jesus wasn't forgiven in all of the gospels. But you can pick the version of the story that's the best and go with that.

#i'm an atheist #this is more of a waiting for godot reference than a biblical reference #spn #destiel #15x09

[mcshiiin]

attended mass today and the homily was lit. father was on fire. spitting facts here and there.

#i'm an atheist

[sasdavvero]

God bless the Sigma or sum

#i'm an atheist #this is just an expression

[yashley]

#critical role #cr lb #ygifs #imogen #and now I'm like did imogen have her own reason for not even going near the raven queen did she pray to her for her mother #thinking her mother was dead was gone and the goddess of death had her and it was just a little girl praying at her bedside #take care of her mother. tell her how much she misses her. she misses her so much. and the raven queen never answered #and she could find no comfort not even in a deity who brought eternal rest there was no solace. and there was no correction #did she pick a god and pray? for her mother to come back. for her father not to hate her. for someone to look at her like shes not a monste #that all this time this certified atheist to have zero interest in the gods or helping them not because she genuinely didn't care #but because once upon a time the little girl she used to be cared so much. and prayed so hard. never seeing the red veil around her #damning her from the grace of the gods #and isn't that just what a monster deserves #not even a gracious god will find you special enough you feel like nothing to them because you are nothing to them #and it's like is that true or is such an evil force preventing their light and it's like I'm chewing but I'm choking #I had to stop looking at laura's face because it was making me too craaazzzyy she'd just be like (bafta) and I'd be like (SCREAMING) #hey matt if this is a birdcall to make imogen a paladin tweet tweet beautiful man

[tartlette1968]

I thought I'd put this here, but I hadn't.

I've been searching for a way to put this into words, because, in my whole 54 years of life, this has happened twice, to me... only twice.

Maybe I'm lucky...

What has happened to me only twice in my life?

Some random stranger thinking they can just approach me and talk about religion. Curiously, both times it happened, I was sitting by myself, happily listening to music. You know, really really obviously wanting a space of solitude.

The last time was just six days ago.

I was sitting in our car, outside the Physio place that we go to, waiting while my partner was having her appointment. I was sitting... in our car, windows wound up, headphones on my head, listening to music.

This guy parks next to me, gets out of his car, and starts looking around in his back seat, pushing and shoving heavily against our car. He's taking, like ages, to find whatever he's looking for, more rocking, and shoving our car. I'm trying to show some patience, try to ignore him. i mean, it is a physio place, and maybe he's trying to get crutches out, or something, and in any case, he'll be gone soon, and then I can... Oh bloody hell, now he's talking to me, which I can't hear because I have noise cancelling "ON". Maybe I can hear what he has to say...

And I regretted taking the headphones off and winding the window down a bit to hear him.

He literally said, "Can I talk to you about Jesus?"

And I became angry, unusually angry very quickly. I didn't quite understand why, I mean, yes, obviously he was setting up to rabbit on for ages... but I told to him to clear off, go away, and just leave me alone. And wondered what it was that had me seriously pissed off.

It was all that fake rooting around in his car, shaking my car, and the big production he put on... he was trying to get my attention in what is the most shittiest dumbassed way, before just plain interrupting me.

#I'm an atheist #What use do I have for conversation about religion #After what the US Supreme Court Just did and why they did it no way no way just no way

[vaguely-concerned]

in addition to all the other reasons the soup scene is so funny, there’s also the element of like... pulling the reverse eucharist card on god in the game of catholic uno. make god eat YOUR body and blood for once, actually, see how he likes it. the heresy of it all

#harrow the ninth #the locked tomb #also hilariously jod may be the only person around that table who'd be able to catch that irony #since it doesn't seem like that's a part of christianity he chose to co-opt for his death empire #maybe I've been too hard on him think of all the jokes he can't share with anyone (I have not been too hard on him) #I'm an atheist from a lutheran country I straight up forget sometimes that communion is uh a thing people do??? outside of movies??? #like huh damn dude

[insomniacirl]

#Lucifer #Jesus #God #The Devil #Satan #I'm an atheist #Religious imagery

[nadia-cannot-think-straight]

People who hiperfixate on Epic of Gilgamesh, Iliad/Oddysey and The Bible are actually the coolest mfs out there. Like yess pleasee draw more Gilgamesh x Enkidu fanart, write more Achilles angst, call Jesus of Nazareth your babygirl, nothing makes me happier.

#i don't mean it in a spiteful “yeah fandomise mytholigical/relious figures so i can laugh haha >:)” kind of way #i genuinely love this #its shows how art we create is immortal how it can move any generation #like the fact that most of the people in the bible fandom are atheist is just so cool #heck i'm atheist and im interested in it #i love you ancient art #bible fandom #the iliad #homer's iliad #homer's odyssey #epic of gilgamesh

[andromeda3116]

gah now i'm getting On My Shit about the discworld again and like i've said what i want to say about the witches and the watch but there's also small gods like i will never be over small gods i finished it and i was like... has this... has this healed some of my religious trauma?

if you've never read it, the plot is thus: on the disc, gods get their power from belief. therefore, the more believers a god has, the more powerful they are. and so, there is this god -- om -- who has risen in power, who has a country devoted to His worship, which hunts down and slaughters heretics and infidels, to whom people pray multiple times a day and make pilgrimages to His holy city, which has a huge citadel and huge structure of a complex religion devoted to his worship. and, on a whim, He comes down one day to see how things are going.

and discovers that he has no power.

that, in this country of millions who profess to worship Him with all their hearts, there is only one person left who actually believes in Him.

and there's a lot of meat there, and a lot more plot to delve into, but the core theme ends up boiling down to this:

can you forgive your god for how they failed you?

and do they deserve that forgiveness? how can they earn that forgiveness?

because ultimately, the forgiveness that the messianic archetype is embodying is not that of the god's grace, but of the people's -- to forgive their god his absence. to give their god another chance to be their god.

and whether or not you, in the end, can forgive, it gives you the language to realize that this is what you were asking for with your last prayers. whether or not you can ever go back, whether or not there have been other reasons since that have convinced you further, it gives you the language to accept that your god failed you. and it is not your fault.

this book speaks loudest, perhaps, to those of us who left our church with grief, not with anger. with hurt betrayal, not with the fires of defiance.

it didn't change my lack of religious belief, but it helped me conceptualize my feelings about the church, the things that went deeper than intellectual arguments. about that sense of betrayal, that hurt, that twisted-up knot within me that it had built, and it gave me the mirror within which i could see that i had been failed by my beliefs. it wasn't that i hadn't believed enough, it was that my belief had been betrayed by the absence of an answer.

there have been other reasons since then that have cemented my atheism, but small gods made me stop hating the church i used to love, because it made me recognize why i hated it so much and said "you're not wrong, it didn't have to be this way. you were betrayed and you were failed and you can let it go, now."

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #small gods #religious trauma #i won't pretend it fixed everything because it's not that simple #but it gave me the language to understand the core of my emotions coming out of that awful place #and that was a seismic shift #i was steadily veering towards the Angry Atheist archetype but it unraveled that anger within me #i'm no less an atheist and this book never tried to change that - sir terry was a secular humanist and this is very much not one of those #preachy christian books like it is *aggressively* not one of those preachy christian books #it's about religious trauma and working through it and dealing with your complicated feelings about your religion #and having that mirror to recognize that what i was feeling *was* trauma. it *was* betrayal. and i wasn't wrong to feel it. #shifted something deep within me

[some-pers0n]

I think the idea of a "heaven is corrupt" sort of storyline could be a neat way to explore the faults of the church and how religion distorts the word of God and turns a faith that should be about love and taking care of one another under the light of the Lord into a means to demonize and other those who aren't "normal", but is kinda wasted in Hazbin Hotel from a lack of understanding of how it works and favours a less nuanced approach.

Throughout history, Christianity has been used to justify discrimination. Demonizing sex and saying sex workers and those who partake in casual sex will be damned. Addicts and the mentally ill are seen as demon-possessed (or demons themselves) and are sent to hell. Of how people justified themselves in colonizing other countries and massacring these people whom they arbitrarily deemed to be unwanted and unlovable in the eyes of God. Twisting His words into hate and viewing those who go against Him in some way, even if it's as small as enjoying sex outside of reproductive means, as sinners undeserving of redemption.

Redemption of sinners I view as being the main theme of Hazbin. Yes, there are murderers and terrible people down there, but does that mean they aren't possible of redemption and salvation? These sinners aren't much different than the saved in heaven. Still human and still capable of kindness and care. Charlie's optimism and hope for salvation and redemption in the sinners contrasts with heaven deeming that they cannot become better people and are better off dead.

Which is a shame since Hazbin seems to take a somewhat black-and-white approach to it all. Adam is so bluntly evil and it kinda takes the fun out of it. I get it because there's also not real subtly with how real Christians see nothing wrong with their hate and say the most outlandish things possible because it just Makes Sense to them, but Adam straight up saying that they kill sinners for fun is too straightforward this early on.

I personally would've preferred it to be more nuanced, or at the very least heaven just attempting to be kind and perfect. An aura of fake-niceness that makes it seem like it's some peaceful and idyllic place, but it only is meant for those who apply themselves to impossible demands and refuses to believe in redemption. Wouldn't it be nice if Charlie harked back to the idea that Christianity is about loving thy neighbour and that Jesus died for our sins? That, if God's love is endless and He forgives all, hell should be empty? Bring up the hypocrisy and how His words are used as a means to hurt and divide rather than bring together community and support.

But where's the fun in that? How am I supposed to know I should root for the red demons and not the angels if they don't make it extremely clear I should hate them? Nuance is stupid anyways.

#hazbin hotel critical #viziepop critical #tw christianity #tw religious themes #sp-rambles #Can you tell I'm an atheist by reading this :]