r/Antitheism

With black christians its like my brother🙏, you are praying to the same God the slave owners of your ancestors used to justify what they were doing to them.
the same people who dehumanized your great grand parents, tortured them, and took everything away from them are the same people that gave them the bible and FORCED yes forced they had no choice christianity onto them until a few generations after they forgot their origins. do you really believe that they would even want you to go to heaven?? or find out about „the truth“ if there was any?

You are only free today because one of your people finally stopped believing that praying to your invisible Sky Daddy would do anything and actually started taking action against the current situation. You are not free today because God finally decided to hear their prayers after letting 400 years of slavery happen. You are free today because someone finally realized they were being completely scammed and that they had to do something themselves if they wanted things to change.

I genuinely feel so sorry for my people.

I'm glad they were able to free themselves from their physical shackles, but they haven't yet been able to free themselves from their mental ones. that's really all it is: chains that the colonizers installed in the minds of them, so they would think God would provide them justice after their death, So they would never begin to fight for justice in the one life they have because they think they get everything they deserve in their nonexistent „afterlife“.. Its honestly really smart.. but its so sad.

And Muslim women are proud of their own oppression. They are essentially defending the fact that they are seen and treated as subhuman by their fellow believers. They actually believe that their sole purpose in life, from childhood onward, is to be chosen by a man one day. If they are raped, the greatest concern of everyone, including themselves, is not whether that man should be punished or whether their health is affected (don’t even get me started on the trauma) but whether or not a man is still going to want her now..

To be one of them, one must have undergone massive brainwashing beforehand and must be very uneducated about history and so many other different things like your own body anatomy, power dynamics, science, evolution, etc..
which is not their fault because most of them were born into it.

but its still sad asf

The idealism of Christianity is separate from its function. How it actually functions is how it really is in the world.

I suspect the experience of most people who grow up in Christian homes is the experience of an unforgiving and rigid moralism. I suspect what they learn from their parents is that Christianity, so far from being forgiving, is brutally judgmental, and exceedingly petty. They learn that Christianity really functions as a justification for hypocrites to treat others with scorn and contempt; to lord over people in judgement, as though they were speaking for God.

Once the child crosses a line, that mighty love of Jesus’s forgiveness vanishes.

so i’ve seen a lot of religious people (mainly christian’s and muslims…not surprised) claim that their religion is not at all misogynistic…well no! how come women have to cover up their body and be modest just to hide their beauty away from men? whilst the men in islam can marry up to 4 wives, be superior to their wife and so
much more??? and yet the world refuses to acknowledge that religion is and always will be biased towards men because when will women ever truly be appreciated? it’s complete bullshit and i’m tired of pretending i can respect all religions(my whole reason for joining this a few weeks ago). if anyone says my statement is wrong please tell me what i got wrong because you can’t convince me religion is misogynistic slop

It is incredibly strange how an ignorant Christian approaches the Bible. It is approached as truth, but also literature, but though it is approached as literature it isn’t approached as a kind of historical or fictional literature. In fact, the way in which the Bible is approached as literature, is idiosyncratic.

A Christian reads the Bible and finds comfort and hope in it. The reading he does is a literary reading of the text (because the actual historical study of the text would destroy the Christian’s reading of the text, if he was honest about the evidence he encountered).

Interestingly enough, I still read the Bible the way these ignorant Christians read it, except I do not share in their willful ignorance, or supernatural presuppositions.

As literature, the Bible is an astounding book, but as a historical document, it’s a compilation of deception and confusion— the ignorant reader assumes all kinds of premises that have nothing to do with its actual context or content. (This is perfectly acceptable if we’re reading it as literary fiction, or philosophically, but it’s not acceptable if we’re trying to comprehend its cultural context and meaning).

I find the topic of the Bible as literature utterly fascinating— because I find the Bible as literature entertaining and thought-provoking (in an idiosyncratic way). Just like one can innovate all kinds of insight through the interpretation of Greek myths, I find the Bible as literature to function exactly the same way.

It’s strange to realize that Christianity is entirely founded on humans reading the Bible as true literature (both of which are biased presuppositions). What this means is that all this exegesis that has exploded on the scene, isn’t actually what captivated the masses, what captivated the masses was and is the Bible as “true literature” (that it has been read as one uniform book with one theology— which is a false assumption on the part of the reader).

[This motions to the immanent destruction of Christianity (from within), something Luther never could have realized when he hyper-focused Christianity on a kind of rational approach to “the Word.” Because, you see, this leads Christians to rationally scrutinizing what they read. You will ask, “how is it rational?” The answer is because they use the law of non-contradiction (within the presuppositions of their theology) to stand as judge over their theological interpretations. They use one scripture to correct another scripture, not realizing they’re practicing reason’s exacting form. And, they believe that because “the Bible is absolutely true,” any scrutiny of it will only further affirm this. Thus they have primed themselves to fall right into the trap of Rational Critical Scholarship, which shatters their folk assumptions about the Bible, they very thing that Christianity as a religion is based on.]

Reading the Bible as literature is a very different experience from studying it historically. Christianity cannot survive the latter, and this new reformation of rational critical scholarship has now entered Christianity’s consciousness. Apologists have starting responding to it, which winds them ever deeper into the destruction of the authority of religious content, and the shattering of its folk form.

I think their only hope is to pivot back to the Bible as literature, and to embrace the epistemological relativism of modern philosophy, which thereby allows them to make their case pragmatically against a world collapsing into nihilistic despair. (Though this approach already surrenders the truth of Christianity from the outset).

But this nihilistic collapse is ideological, it’s not substantive, it’s created by philosophy and sustained by philosophy. Science knows nothing of this nihilistic despair, and shatters it at every turn.

Christianity, above all else, needs men to read the Bible as true literature. If this falters, which is now presently happening due to rational critical scholarship, then Christianity will collapse from within. Men will no longer be able to read the Bible as true literature, holding a set of folk presuppositions, but only as another form of mythology. This is great for the secular world, but it is a death sentence for Christianity.

Human consciousness is now at the last stage of Christianity, where it becomes just another myth in a pile of myths. Those myths represent this same process of sublated consciousness playing out in other civilizations. We are now at this stage in our civilization process— we are transcending the mindlessness of our own myths.

Does this mean new false Gods will be born? I suspect they are already born! But one thing that can save us from repeating this process, at least in the minds of a few, is not just to transcend the myth (content) of Christianity, but to identify and transcend the psychological, authoritarian form on which Christianity and all other myths have been based.

and people doing horrible rite of passage rituals today (i.e circumcision/genital mutilation to a non-consenting children for certain religions) makes me so disappointed to be a human sometimes.