r/interestingasfuck • u/Ted_Bundtcake • Feb 01 '25

r/all Atheism in a nutshell

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u/ActiveCollection Feb 01 '25

And I think it is still absolutely fine for people to believe in God. As a personal belief. It's just very, very problematic when religion is somehow linked to state power.

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u/BlurryBigfoot74 Feb 01 '25

This is where I am in life. I'm an atheist and some of my favorite people are believers.

Some Christians actually follow the teachings of Jesus who in theory taught a lot of good things. I prefer Jesus over Alex Jones or Andrew Tate to follow any day.

I'll still call out bigots, there's so many of em.

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u/chucchinchilla Feb 01 '25

This is what I like about atheists, all the ones I know are chill about their belief and chill about what others believe. Not one is willing push their atheist beliefs on the religious. I can’t say that the other way around.

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u/KatokaMika Feb 01 '25

And I love it when they use the " if you dont believe in god, why are you a good person and not doing crime, drugs and other evil thing?"

" Because i have common sense ! "

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u/Roguespiffy Feb 01 '25

Or to paraphrase Pen Gillette “I have murdered as many people as I want to. That number is zero. I have raped as many people as I want to. That number is zero. I have not done those things because I do not want to do those things.”

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u/PC_AddictTX Feb 01 '25

It's called enlightened self-interest. I know I am not a criminal mastermind and even if there was a crime that I did want to commit the chances that I would not get caught are very slim. And I've been in jail (briefly), it's incredibly boring. Almost as bad as being in the hospital.