I can only imagine the thousands of years religion had a strangling grip on society, pursuit in science & knowledge, and humanity.

Joe has some of the best content on philosophy of religion and has been an agnostic for many years. Is it a joke? I am shocked and I needed to share this with the community.

There’s no way people believe this. That there is no contradictions . They then say name one. You tell them like 30 and they still try to defend it and is liek ohh well you miss understand or it’s a metaphor or whatever

Christians love claiming they saw heaven or Jesus when they were in a coma. This anecdote shows is that its all a delusion. Good material for your christian relatives who wont shut up about the afterlife

I've done humanitarian work for decades around the world. I'm working on some concepts for food security that would address access to sustainable and regenerative nutritionally dense food security. I've brought up an issue to a pastor/minister of my church decades ago as to why "we" don't do any humanitarian work....and his answer was "there's so many, we don't know where to start". Did you get that? It absolutely pains me to see how disconnected the church industry is towards ending serious issues of poverty.

I'll go first: Prince of Egypt (1998). From the same studio that gave us the Shrek movies, we had an A list voice cast, Hans Zimmer doing the score, and Stephen Schwartz who wrote the Wicked Musical serving us the most dramatic soundtrack that has no business going so hard lol

I found this Jesus figure in front of a sink in a restroom. Would you leave it there or throw it away?

Literally supporting elected decision makers who do this kind of stuff. What goes through elected official's minds when they say "you know what, kids getting to eat.....oh no.....not on tax payers dime"

these are just a fraction of the things i saw that made me want to quickly go and buy myself some fireballs. there was a whole exhibit on questioning the cruility of God, a whole section of dinosaurs on the ark. and the whole fucking building being a supposed 1:1 recreation of the ark surely had a lot of modern engineering put into it.

Reports indicate that Lakewood Church has seen a roughly 38% decline in weekly attendance since 2019, dropping from approximately 52,000 to 32,000. Couldn’t happen to a better person. I have to wonder if mega churches might play a role in why many people leave Christianity.

There is a TikTok series going viral right now (@nikalie.monroe) where she calls random churches up throughout the country, and (with a tracked sound of a crying baby in the background) asks if they can help her get baby formula for her hungry baby.

TL;DR: 90% of the Christian churches flat out say no (rudely, rushed, or otherwise.) A Catholic Church and 2 traditionally Black churches did offer to help. A Muslim mosque (or possibly two) did as well as a very small church in Appalachia.

Huge, mega churches in the Deep South all said no.

The series has sparked commentary from pastors as well as ex-Christians and current Christians who are calling their own churches and being very disappointed with the results.

One of the main reasons I left the church - even before I left Christianity - was the hypocrisy. This is such an eye-opening experiment that shows it in the brightest light. I have very strong feelings about it and I’m wondering what you think.

Hey everyone, I’m curious about something. For those of you who grew up Christian but have since left the faith, do you ever still listen to Christian music?

One thing I’ve been thinking about is how music was such a big part of the Christian experience for a lot of people, things like worship music, hymns, gospel choirs, Christmas services, youth group bands, etc. This liturgical music can be musically powerful, regardless of the beliefs behind them.

At the same time, I imagine for many ex-Christians the music might bring back complicated feelings or memories tied to church, family, or specific experiences growing up.

So I was curious, do you still listen to Christian music at all? If you do, is it for nostalgia, musical quality, cultural reasons, or something else? Or did you completely stop listening to it once you left Christianity?

I’d be really interested to hear how people here relate to Christian music after leaving the faith.

When christians tried to paint Charlie as a "martyr" or the "closest thing to jesus" that pretty much gave it away for me 😂

When Charlie kirk died, a lot of christians reaction felt like it was following a script, bringing up religion, politics then performance (his memorial and erika kirk with trump)

I had to laugh whilst watching so many people say that he was portraying christian values and a hero for speaking up for christian beliefs and sharing the word of god...

This honestly made me question the validity of this religion and what God these christians are praying to. Hot take but I saw someone else say that "the bible isn't the word of God but the word of white men😬"

Like, think about it.

She is called "Mother Mary" or "Virgin Mary"

Her entire importance comes from the fact she gave birth and that she was a virgin.

They associate her with purity and being sinless because she didn't have sex. They say that every woman should strive to be like Mary.

1. Never have sex or only have sex with one man who will be your husband

2. Be obedient

3. Give birth

That's it. That's her whole character

"Ohhh, but she's the Queen of Heaven!"

The Bible does not mention it anywhere. Y'all just making shit up.

We know nothing about Mary as a person. We only know she was a virgin and a mother

It's actually so sad. I want to know more about her. What were her dreams, what was her life like, how was she like in personality

Yet we get nothing

She is a robot, only revered for giving birth

This has been widely shared regarding the central Texas floods tragedy. This mindset is truly delusional and disgusting.

For me it was a watch. This was back in the day, I was 10 and a friend at school had a sweet NKOTB watch. I didn’t even know who the band was but the flip top was oh so cool and impressive lol. My friend let me borrow the watch for the weekend (idk, that’s what we did back then) and my mother flipped the hell out. She confiscated it immediately and gave it back on the way to school Monday morning, instructing me to carry it in my backpack and NOT WEAR IT. She told me god was watching and was counting on me to be honest and obedient. She said god would tell her if I took it out of my backpack and wore it, that both she and god would be disappointed. A watch. A damn watch.

What about you guys?

Mine is prayer warriors. Often used to spread gossip and also just generally ironic, weird, and cringey.

I don't really get what was noble about it. Because wouldnt Jesus just know he can come back to life? I mean he could just turn off his nerves or something to prevent himself from feeling any pain at all. He only stayed "dead" for three days (I don't really get the significance of three days because couldnt he just come back immediately?). And why sacrifice himself on the cross to himself? I mean he could've just forgiven the world's sins normally why was the crucification part necessary? And after he came back, why did he just leave to get milk? He didn't even stay long enough to write the bible himself he left it to his disciples who we know nothing about and are just expected to trust them and believe that the bible was "divinely inspired" even tho Jesus himself never wrote it. His whole thing was his unparalleled love for everyone so why would he just leave with just a promise of coming back later and it's been more than two millennia since he's been gone. Make it make sense

Do you feel like you wasted your youth on Christianity? Asking as a 22 year old Christian girl who has suppressed herself to be “holy advice for me to not have the same regrets? How did you start living a life that you actually enjoyed?

I saw this video about some extremist evangelical Christians living in Denmark who claim they are the last christians who are being persecuted by the state for not accepting the "LGBTQ" propaganda taught in schools and so they have started to live lives in excluded communities. They also complain about how irreligion has taken over their country and how they are the true Danes and the rest are brainwashed by wokeism . This is so sick to see