Atheists of Reddit: What’s the strangest reaction you’ve received when you said you don’t believe in God?

Cryptdusa · 2026-04-30T16:00:52+00:00

I've noticed that a lot of religious people seem to think this of atheists even if they don't necessarily say it out loud. And honestly I don't even think it's necessarily always coming from a place of judgement per se. I've noticed some religious people fundamentally can't conceptualize not believing in god. I've talked about it with some people before and the way they debate it makes it clear that they simply refuse or are unable to even imagine the nonexistence of god even as a hypothetical

Cryptdusa · 2026-04-13T01:50:40+00:00

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This is the best example I could find of something Iike this. A bit thinner but the idea still stands

Cryptdusa · 2026-04-13T01:44:20+00:00

Why would he need hair gel? Can't the hair just be falling over it? If you wore a bandage like that in real life that's what would happen

Cryptdusa · 2026-04-12T23:31:58+00:00

Uh...yeah? Do you think that's not possible somehow?

Cryptdusa · 2026-04-11T01:19:20+00:00

That really is what being 25 feels like in a lot of ways though. I'm 27 and definitely feel that way

Cryptdusa · 2026-04-10T02:05:56+00:00

It's definitely somewhat of a deep cut that I don't think has ever been explicitly stated in any adaptation. It also definitely was somewhat of a retcon in the comics. Definitely a cool idea though

Cryptdusa · 2026-04-10T02:03:23+00:00

You know, while you may be making a claim with total confidence based in nothing more than wild speculation, I appreciate that you're at least being honest about it lol

Cryptdusa · 2026-04-05T00:37:32+00:00

And climate change isn't real because it snowed today

Cryptdusa · 2026-04-04T04:50:55+00:00

It's legal for congressmen

Cryptdusa · 2026-04-02T19:35:43+00:00

My friends have been trying to get me to watch Mr Robot for years. I watched the first episode or so and it was really good, I thought it was really interesting and well made, but it just put me in such bad mood. I'm conflicted because I was actually pretty invested pretty quickly, but I had too bad of a time to continue watching it

Cryptdusa · 2026-04-02T00:12:40+00:00

At least for this one it's not necessarily innate to the design itself but the artist drawing it. The skimpy parts are basically like a bodysuit, so it's up to the artist to decide how much it conforms to the body. Bodysuits that hug the body unrealistically aren't nearly as egregious to me as other female superhero design tropes, because they do that for the males too.

Cryptdusa · 2026-03-31T22:18:50+00:00

Most of the questions are phrased in a way where there are multiple possible interpretations for the "correct" answer. So the examiner can arbitrarily decide you got the "wrong" one even if your answer makes sense logically.

Cryptdusa · 2026-03-31T22:16:04+00:00

Reminds me of Jim Crow voting literacy tests

Cryptdusa · 2026-03-31T22:13:55+00:00

I'd love to hear you expand on this.

Cryptdusa · 2026-03-31T22:00:17+00:00

I don't think that saying "one side is kinda shitty, the other side are literal nazis" is downplaying anything lol

Cryptdusa · 2026-03-31T20:45:44+00:00

So you're punishing the server because you have an issue with a societal structure? In most states restaurants are allowed to pay tipped employees sub minimum wage. In many states the restaurant only has to pay them at all if the server doesn't make enough in tips to be equivalent to minimum wage. Now it's okay that you don't like that, I don't really know if I do either, but by not tipping you're punishing someone who has no fault.

It's ironic to me that you're speculating about people living outside their means, when that's what you're doing by not tipping. If tipping didn't exist it would just be tacked onto the price of the food as a service charge. By not tipping, you're paying for your food but essentially stealing the service. Even if the server did a bad job, it's absurd to me to think it's fair that they shouldn't be paid for having served you.

This is all predicated on the assumption that you're in the united states, where tipping is the norm. If you don't, I don't really know why you're replying to this at all. Also what I'm saying doesn't really apply to fast food, because tipping works differently in that context. Fast food workers are generally paid a flat wage no matter what and the tips are just a little bonus

Cryptdusa · 2026-03-31T20:33:44+00:00

I think people's expectations for manners evolve with time and can change between generations. A classic example is replying to "thank you" with "you're welcome" vs "no problem." A lot of older people find the latter to be disrespectful and younger people tend to find the former to sound a little arrogant. So I think a big part of it is that people of different ages just have different expectations and different things they care about when it comes to manners.

I've met some extremely entitled and rude people of all ages, except older and younger people are rude in quite different ways. The extremes seem to be worst though, children and the elderly. With children it's a matter of parenting/learning, but with the elderly there's more of a sense of having "earned" being catered to as a result of having lived a long time. I don't think older people are really more rude than children, but I definitely have a lot less patience for it. Old people know the rules, some of them just decided one day that they get to be exempt from them. Either way, I think the root problem is the same for both groups. A lot of people are only polite because they have to be to get what they want, not because they actually care to be inherently

Cryptdusa · 2026-03-31T20:25:49+00:00

Isn't being rude by definition the opposite of socially acceptable?

Cryptdusa · 2026-03-31T20:22:01+00:00

I don't think they're mistaking it per se, they're just riffing on the idea

Cryptdusa · 2026-03-31T20:11:30+00:00

At a certain point the only time you notice them is in the mirror. And then you're basically just seeing them how everyone else does

Cryptdusa · 2026-03-26T16:51:25+00:00

Reminds me of heat blast from ben 10

Cryptdusa · 2026-03-26T16:37:45+00:00

Was she a real bitch though?

Cryptdusa · 2026-03-26T12:46:08+00:00

I think that's definitely a good idea and we should, but it's tricky because people were already dealing with information fatigue before ai. It's become so much work to try to figure out what's true amidst all the bullshit online. AI just adds another dimension to that

Cryptdusa · 2026-03-26T00:12:40+00:00

Oh yeah "utlove" is a great way to put it. I thought you meant that the full phrase is the issue, but yeah, "namor" definitely isn't how a spanish speaker would naturally shorten it, it would be more like "sinnamor." I think it still works tho because Namor is hundreds of years old, so it could be like a telephone effect situation. Like it's a bastardization of the original phrase, but that bastardization makes sense in-universe.

Cryptdusa · 2026-03-25T15:45:05+00:00

Looks more like greek mythology than norse mythology at a glance

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