Sinful-skeptic - Minerva

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.

If consenting women are sluts, I love sluts.

“Not to shade religious people but it’s kinda chilling how some folks praise Abraham for being willing to kill Isaac for God to prove his devotion. Like idk about y’all, but if God told me to kill my son i’d kinda be like maybe this isn’t the god for me.”

Religion prioritizes submission, devotion, obedience, blind faith, etc. so it’s obvious what that tale was trying to do. They’re telling the followers that they will be rewarded for putting their god above any other.

“You must submit, but you have to do it willingly (like Abraham), forced submission is the same as no submission.”

They’re portraying this behavior as something to be praised and something to strive for. Abrahamic religions only give the illusion of “choice”. The tale is used to keep the followers in line while making them think that they’re admirable and worthy of praise because they chose to submit.

"If God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job." -- Carl Sagan

Satan is no more real than the gods they worship - and more

I’m really coming to loathe these “you don’t hate religion, you hate Christianity” posts. 90% of the time whatever bad practice is under discussion is at least substantially prevalent in large parts of Islam, and often in Hinduism and some of the more reactionary strains of Buddhism and Judaism as well.

Misogyny and homophobia are not unique to Christianity, nor are blind dogmatism or violent intolerance of other faiths. Christianity is certainly responsible for the lion’s share of religious oppression in America, but as it turns out there are places in the world that are not America.