"Why Can't You Just Respect My Opinion?"

Someone i know even admitted that the only reason he’s a zionist is out of fear of “God’s Wrath”.

Listen, i dont mean to sound like a reddit atheist, but... You ever think about how evangelical Chriatians very literally believe that there will be a genocide in which billions of humans, mostly just innocent everyday people, are condemned to suffer in hell?

And, like, that's the end. That's the finale. Of everything they believe. That's their solution for the world. A final one, if you will.

And they don't rebel. They don't say "hey, wait, that's a bit much" and appeal to their God to maybe reconsider. They don't even seem to really mind.

Instead, they worship. They conjure up an image of a genocidal maniac, and they worship it. The word "praise" is bandied about a lot. Praise. For a leader whose endgoal, very transparently, is genocide.

Suddenly a lot of history makes a little more sense.

:(

Your concierge-god is too busy getting Maureen from Butkrak, Missouri a parking space, and fixing football games so that Bob from Pharthoal, Louisiana’s team wins.

Hopefully this isn’t something that happens outside of the internet, but i wanna say that no matter how much you’ve been hurt by religion or religious people, do NOT sexualize women who practice modesty for religious purposes, even if it’s out of spite. I saw this going around online and their excuses are always related to their religious trauma regarding purity culture.

I know they have a grudge and many of us do, but sexualizing them only causes harm and does absolutely nothing to criticize religion. I’ve seen (mostly male) atheists who would edit photos of modest religious women (including hijabis and nuns) to put them in clothing that they would never be comfortable in. The sexualization is misogyny disguised as criticism of religion.

i just got a call from my sis. She said morality police riding on motorcycles attacked her on the street and forced her into a van and kept her at a police station for hours and let her go just now. Her voice was quivering and she was shaken. Told me to be careful today on the streets. Said to wear something on my head so they won’t attack me as well. I am furious at how easily this fuckedup religion and this fuckedup regime reduce us into a quivering mess. Mere objects that they can so easily control and subdue. How we go from someone with a job and a life and family to a criminal they can attack and abuse and imprison. This is the true face of Islam. Not the pretty, cutesy one they show you in the west and you all fall for it. But this brutal, barbaric treatment of women who refuse to comply. It’s in the very text of quran. Please stop covering up the ugliness of organized religions and our daily suffering just to be ‘cool’ and liberal and polite. It’s always better to be informed and ‘smart’.

Margaret Atwood, from “The Art of Fiction No. 121”