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ugh real

@sofi it's exhausting 😭 "jesus loves you!" "turn to god!" and also threats EVERYWHERE

i feel that 😭 it’s so hard because I don’t believe in it and yet everywhere I turn there are loads of ppl (guys not my friends hopefully) who try and push religion on me

@sunbeam no literally, i just had a three-day field trip with a club and we were all in a group by the couch at our airbnb playing mafia, eating pizza, watching barbie and other dumb shi and some girl pulls out her phone and starts reading bible verses and stuff out loud and i legit just get up and leave 🥀

@maya literallyyy. and at school i remember we were talking abt religion and this girl said “ur a christian, right?” and i said no and she pretended to not hear me and said “what?” and when i said no again she looked so disappointed like i had offended her by not being a christian.

@sofi girl i'm sorry that pisses me off so much 😭 and i go to a charter school where almost everyone there is religious so it's so frustrating sometimes

Awww I’m sorry you guys have to deal with that. I’m catholic, but I always try to not force or change people’s opinions or religion. Being catholic is good for me, but maybe not for other people. I used to go to a catholic school and would always get in trouble in religion class bc I would challenge the ideas. My religion teacher once said “everybody who isn’t catholic is stupid and going to hell” and I said some worried that landed me a talk with the principal.

@lenabelle wtaf that's actually so crazy and insulting to other people... some people will act like their religion is the only one that exists and is correct 😭

so real

and people are always shocked if they find out I'm an atheist and they're like "but you're so nice" 😭

omg soooo reallll like a couple of my friends r and they can be but one of my old friends used to try to push it one me(one of the reasons we aren’t friends anymore)

real😔 everytime i tell someone im an atheist they’re always like “i’m praying for you”😭

@samantha lmao what? like what’d they expect atheists to be like? screaming monsters?

@sunbeam haha ikr

@maya exactly! It pisses me off soooo much. Even if you think your religion is the best (no religion is better then another) at least don’t be rude and insult people

yes bro😭at my school there was this girl who always carried around the bible with her and told people their souls needed to be saved like what the huh??

@mara NAH THATS CRAZY

In my band class last year, the kid I liked asked if I was religious, and I was js like “no not rlly I don’t go to church or anything and I don’t rlly believe in anything specific” and was met with silence and shock by the entire band section. Like bro..I always get weird looks from people when I say I don’t go to church..

no bc this is so real. being an atheist raised by a catholic family it's awful. (off topic, but i love your pfp, my man)

That’s how I feel being a pagan

@ale omg same. higuruma 🤤🤤

“gay is a sin” what if I don’t believe in sins….? like dude christianity isnt the ONLy religion dawg give me some breathing space

liamped ! wrote: "“gay is a sin” what if I don’t believe in sins….? like dude christianity isnt the ONLy religion dawg give me some breathing space"

oh my fucking god don't even get me started on the homophobes who use their religion as a shield and an excuse to be hateful

I feel this to a toxic amount 😣

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‘Religion, Freud believed, was an expression of underlying psychological neuroses and distress—an attempt to gain control over the external world’

i can’t recall the exact quote but it’s something along those lines ^^

It can feel pretty lonely sometimes to be one, but it’s always beautiful when you are loved for being yourself. Your morals are your own, and your kindness too.

I’ve done some research, and they say that only 7–10% of the population are atheists, and 20–24% are unaffiliated.

We are unique in all the world. (:

hannah •baby it’s cold outside• jeffers wrote: "‘Religion, Freud believed, was an expression of underlying psychological neuroses and distress—an attempt to gain control over the external world’"

personally i don't agree with freud on some matters but i feel this. i think religion, in my view, is a construct that humans created to find comfort in the face of our need for clarity. when science falls short of answering the ultimate question of "why do we exist," people often turn to religion to quell their confusion and insecurity.

Casey wrote: "It can feel pretty lonely sometimes to be one, but it’s always beautiful when you are loved for being yourself. Your morals are your own, and your kindness too.

I’ve done some research, and they ..."

this is beautiful!!

Casey wrote: "It can feel pretty lonely sometimes to be one, but it’s always beautiful when you are loved for being yourself. Your morals are your own, and your kindness too.

I’ve done some research, and they ..."

i also did some research because i was curious on this too! did you know that approx. 51% to 56% of people in france do not believe in a god?

CLOCK IT OMG because why is it that if I say I’m an atheist your first reaction is “turn to Jesus”?? My first reaction to “I’m a Christian” isn’t to tell them that’s not real, bc I don’t force my beliefs onto others… I’ve never seen atheists going door to door telling people about atheism but other religions do it all the freaking time. You can have YOUR PERSONAL BELIEFS, but that doesn’t get to dictate anyone else’s life, and it also doesn’t absolve you of any criticism or make you better than people and I think that people have a weirdly hard time with that

@livi EXACTLY

livi wrote: "CLOCK IT OMG because why is it that if I say I’m an atheist your first reaction is “turn to Jesus”?? My first reaction to “I’m a Christian” isn’t to tell them that’s not real, bc I don’t force my b..."

exactly! i get missionaries coming to my door very often and it is so annoying 😭

oh god i grew up forced to be catholic. mother's catholic and father's christian. it was horrible especially when my nan spent 23 years of my life trying to shove religion down my throat. now i consider myself an atheist with more 'spiritual' views, stepping away from mainstream religion completely and never been happier. when someone drops the god this jesus that crap into a conversation i'm like yeah no goodbye.

⋆꣑ৎ˙⋆ wrote: "oh god i grew up forced to be catholic. mother's catholic and father's christian. it was horrible especially when my nan spent 23 years of my life trying to shove religion down my throat. now i con..."

girll i'm so sorry about that, i feel like we all never talk about religious trauma enough and you're not alone. i also grew up with a catholic-christian family (on my mother's side) and it felt like all they ever talked about was god or jesus and i felt like i lived in constant fear and i was cautious about every decision i made. i was constantly dragged into church all the time, especially with my grandparents. luckily when i got away from them when my parents divorced, i was abke to think for myself and come to the conclusion that when examined critically none of that made any sense.

⋆꣑ৎ˙⋆ wrote: "oh god i grew up forced to be catholic. mother's catholic and father's christian. it was horrible especially when my nan spent 23 years of my life trying to shove religion down my throat. now i con..."

so i totally understand getting uncomfortable when it's brought up because i'm the same way honestly 😭

It doesn’t bother me if they’re like “I’ll pray for you!” Or “Jesus loves you” but like if every convo is js about God or how Jesus loves me it does get a bit annoying and once I commented on a Christians post on how I love friending Christian’s and they were like “awww ty (hoping to change your view on some things!)” or smth like that and I js didn’t reply cuz I didn’t know what to say to that lmao 😭

when they tell me "Jesus loves you" there's nothing wrong with it, but if I say "Satan loves you" they lose their shit..? like i'm literally doing what you're doing to me right back..

☆ Dylan [Joey Jordison's vers.] ☆ wrote: "when they tell me "Jesus loves you" there's nothing wrong with it, but if I say "Satan loves you" they lose their shit..? like i'm literally doing what you're doing to me right back.."

clock it 😭

@Dylan haha I love that

If I made an atheists group would yall join?

Samantha wrote: "If I made an atheists group would yall join?"

totally

@samantha yess 100%

@samantha me too

this is so real omg. i have a whoooleee rant on this

my entire family except for those i live with are catholic so i'm surrounded by it all the time !! and bc i'm from italy people instantly assume i'm catholic when that's not the case, and then they js look at me like i've personally offended them by not being christian !! and then at my schl we sing like christian hymns all the time for no reason in assemblies. and when i tell ppl i'm an agnostic humanist they look at me like wtf ru on because rarely anyone knows what that is, and then when i explain it to them they say smth like "it's never too late to turn to jesus" or like "jesus is going to come back to earth and everyone who doesn't believe is gonna go to hell" like wtf pls leave me alone😭😭😭

anyways my heart goes out to the ppl who have to put up with this constantly

Samantha wrote: "If I made an atheists group would yall join?"

oo yess

Yay here's the group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/invit...