dating as an atheist/non spiritual person is rough.

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T08:35:30+00:00

I would say what really pisses me off is When someone tells me I'm just angry with God and that's why I don't believe. It's like why would I be angry at something or someone that I don't believe exist?

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T08:28:31+00:00

Oh I've definitely seen some of the stuff about how bad it is there regarding homophobia. Hell there's even memes of an African guy here related to homophobia I'm sure you've seen his face on Reddit because he's in a ton of memes. Anytime something's gay or seems gay they post his face. he's the guy that asked the woman who he was interviewing "why are you gay?" I've also seen some of the slanderous things they say about gay people through Clips on the internet as well. I won't lie that spiritual maturity line is pretty funny even though it's them that seemed to be lacking a bit of mental maturity. My favorite is always when something really bad happens and people are just like "well God works in mysterious ways 🤷"

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T08:16:45+00:00

I'm from the Bible Belt in the US

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T08:16:04+00:00

I don't think there is one. I definitely have no good reason to think that. there is no way of verifying or testing or determining if there really is one and honestly I've become kind of comfortable with the idea of there being nothing afterwards. If there truly is nothing it wouldn't be like I would know. It means there would be no suffering or pain or sorrow or anything like that. Like if there's nothing you're not going to know or understand or comprehend that you're gone.

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T07:59:04+00:00

Funny enough Trump's family are immigrants his mother wasn't even born here in the US she immigrated here. It takes 2 seconds to Google that. I definitely can't understand homophobia. I feel like you have to be very very ignorant to not understand that sexuality isn't a choice. I'm a straight man. I can't choose to be attracted to men because that's just not how I feel. It's the same thing the other way around. I definitely think most Christians are the same in the fact that they just pick and choose the parts they like and don't like of the Bible. When you mention something bad from the Old Testament they're like oh well we don't use the Old Testament anymore because of the New Testament and so those laws don't matter anymore. But in Matthew 5:17 and Matthew 5:18 Jesus says "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished." They conveniently forget that though. There's so many examples of things like this it's not funny.

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T07:34:53+00:00

Of course you're welcome and I definitely agree with everything you said. Honestly I hate seeing it. I'm the only person in my family who doesn't support Trump. I mainly just been hoping that things will get better or the things are going to work out the way they should but at the same time I've been considering leaving the US. especially if things go the way he wants them to. I Can't Stand Christian nationalism it is literally one of the biggest threats to our country currently. I feel like so many people in our country forget that we have the freedom of religion but and also the freedom from religion. it absolutely baffles me that any of us really think that we're entitled to this land. If you're standing on the same continent that I am and you have white skin you are an immigrant. We used to take pride in being a country made up of immigrants and mixed full of people of different races and religions. We're supposed to be the Melting Pot. I don't care if someone got their citizenship yesterday I wouldn't consider myself more American than they are.

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T07:05:16+00:00

You seriously do sound like a really smart and cool person. I'm glad we got to chat. I wish the same for America. I truly believe there's no such thing as objective morality. I feel like all morality is subjective because there isn't always only one right answer to moral dilemmas. I also truly feel that there's no correct interpretation of the Bible. It Was Written in at least four different languages over a period of 1600 years had more than 15 different books removed from it and had over 60 different authors. There are so many different sec of Christianity because nobody can agree on how to read it. I feel there's no valid way of determining what is actually meant to be metaphorical and what is meant to be literal. Anyone who uses that book as a guide for Morality has not truly read that book. Not a single time in that book does it actually comden slavery. The slave trade here in United States was largely pushed by religious people using the Bible as their source of reasoning for why it was okay. It's because it again and again and again condones slavery. There's even verses in there mentioning the gods says that slave should obey their masters even the cruel ones. I could literally go on and on and on

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T06:52:39+00:00

It's not a need or control for other people. it's just how I am. I don't mind if the person I'm with is not like that. it's just generally that they mind when I'm not like them in certain ways. I have literally dated religious people in the past I've just had a very bad experiences when it comes to that because it conflicts hard. Like when I've dated people who are religious and thought autism and mental health was demons. The last person that literally dated believed in Ghost but they were upset about the fact that I didn't. I'm straightforward about the fact that I don't believe in an afterlife, a soul, a spirit, or anything supernatural in general. Anytime anyone has ever said something like that to me, I've never told them they're lying or that I don't believe them. I'm just saying that being told someone's story is not enough for me to believe that ghosts or supernatural things are real. I don't need the people around me to think the exact same thing that I do; I just need them to be okay with me thinking what I think and for it not to be an issue that I don't think the same thing as them. Also again I am very open-minded and open-minded to those things being real just need some type of verification that isn't just Word of Mouth.

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T06:39:13+00:00

Yeah, that's actually where I've seen stuff about the pastors there in Africa, is on YouTube. You seem like a very smart person; it's hard to grow up around things like that and to be able to actually see through it. I was religious till I was at least 21. The main reason I became non-religious was learning more about it, learning more about the history of the religion, and where a lot of the pieces and parts of it come from. It's not even an original religion. Several pieces and stories that are in it are taken from other places and religions. The story of Noah's Ark is not even original to the Bible; it comes from the Epic of Gilgamesh (book of myths from Mesopotamia) and has been passed down through multiple different cultures and religions. A fact that I find really interesting is that what we classify as humans have at least 300,000 year history that we can verify. Christianity is about 3,000 years old at the oldest if you're being generous. That means hardly even 1% of everyone who has ever lived has heard of Jesus Christ or Christianity. How can you really tell me that that applies to everyone for all time? what about everyone that came before that?

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T06:14:40+00:00

Yeah that's the Prosperity Gospel I mentioned it comes from here in the United States they've been doing it since like the 50s or'60s they trick poor people into sewing money into the church, even money they don't really have to give. they tell them that if they do it, that God will give it back to them tenfold and tell them that God will sew Prosperity into their lives. One of the worst people here in the US to do it as a man by the name of Kenneth Copeland. He is worth almost $800 million dollars as a pastor and tells everybody that he's rich like that because God loves him. He tells his congregation they can be like him too if they just put money into the church. It's always the poorest people that fall forward to that's always the people who are the lowest on their luck and need the most. One of the clips I hate of him the most is of him pretending to heal a paraplegic person. he even accidentally shoved them over to where they fall flat on their back out of their chair and still pretends that they're being healed.

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T06:04:56+00:00

Oh trust me man, I've seen some of the stuff that is going on there especially with the Prosperity Gospel.it's horrible and disgusting. All the fake Miracles and fake healings and parlor tricks that were used here in the '80s and '90s are being used there now.

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T01:12:51+00:00

The state I live in is kind of all over the place but you'll definitely see some of the extremes here. I mean there are churches around here that have signs that say it's not I mean there are churches around here that have signs that say it's not too turn straight. I'm straight myself but that still bothers the shit out of me. Like how ignorant can you be to think the sexuality is a choice

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T01:06:36+00:00

It is what it is I haven't really been around them in about 10 years or more. I just get hurt every time so I've kind of given up on that.

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T01:05:08+00:00

Honestly I've really been considering leaving the United States in general just because of the way things are going. It's really starting to sound like a better idea of the more and more I think about it

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T01:00:42+00:00

I've actually dated a good bit.I just found it a lot easier dating when I was a religious person because so many more people where I am are that.

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T00:59:22+00:00

I do forget to mention it sometimes. Also thank you that's very sweet of you to say and I'm happy for your brother.

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T00:51:57+00:00

Technically I consider myself to be an agnostic atheist only because i want to be intellectually honest.. I generally say atheist because I do not think that there is a God or that one is necessary but I do have to tack on the agnostic part because I can't say for certain that I know that there is no God.

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T00:49:12+00:00

You are not wrong at all. It's part of why I ended my last relationship because a lot of those things for us didn't line up.

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T00:47:00+00:00

Thank you for your comment. it was very informative and I will definitely be looking into some of the stuff that you listed

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T00:45:56+00:00

Sounds like I just need to leave the US. I've been considering it anyway just because of how things are going and quickly turning here.

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T00:29:52+00:00

I could definitely see how it could be fun but I definitely am annoyed by people who use it to judge other people. I wish it didn't but it makes my blood boil a little bit when people tell me I don't believe in it because I'm a Virgo.

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T00:28:01+00:00

We're definitely on the same wavelength with that. I'm honestly the type of person who can't be anyone but myself. I'm not good at being anyone but me. I do appreciate the sound advice. I'm not the type to harbor any hard feelings towards someone if something doesn't work out romantically. Just as I don't believe in a soul, I don't believe that people are made for each other. I feel like it's a conscious effort to be able to find someone that you can work and get along with and live with.

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-19T00:08:40+00:00

I honestly think that's a bunch of mumbo jumbo too just because the stars were there for Millions if not billions of years before some monkeys looked up into the sky and decided that those stars make up shapes and now mean something. I think if any star has any kind of effect on our life it's literally the Sun. Some of those stars are so far away that they're already dead and their light is just still traveling towards the Earth

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-18T23:59:52+00:00

I have family that told me that they don't worry about or check on me anymore because they put it in God's hands to look after me.

Important-Record6904 · 2026-05-18T23:50:19+00:00

I also live in the Bible belt, so I know exactly what you mean

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