Damned Atheists.

[The Valkyrie]

Today, of all days, atheists did nothing controversial.


The bastards!

[Paleophyte]

To be specific, no atheist did anything in the name of, or with the assistance of, no religion. There are enough of us out there creeping around that I'm sure somebody was a right royal bastard, but that's because they were a horrible person and has nothing to do with their atheism. They're just an asshole.

[Fireball]

Dafuq, atheists, go and cause some trouble, already! Real trouble, not that religious accusatory shit. 

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I apologize for failing to do my part as an atheist. It's been weeks since I participated in a Satanic human sacrifice, ate a baby, or had an abortion.

I promise to try harder.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

I seldom leave the house so any shenanigans on my part go largely unnoticed.

Being admin on an atheist forum is about as controversial as it gets around here.

[zebo-the-fat]

I apologize for failing to do my part as an atheist. It's been weeks since I participated in a Satanic human sacrifice, ate a baby, or had an abortion.

I promise to try harder.

Boru

Last chance, if you don't improve you will be expelled!

[The Valkyrie]

I apologize for failing to do my part as an atheist. It's been weeks since I participated in a Satanic human sacrifice, ate a baby, or had an abortion.

I promise to try harder.

Boru

Last chance, if you don't improve you will be expelled!

With a trebuchet...

[The Valkyrie]

I apologize for failing to do my part as an atheist. It's been weeks since I participated in a Satanic human sacrifice, ate a baby, or had an abortion.

I promise to try harder.

Boru

You know, technically you can combine all three...

[zebo-the-fat]

I apologize for failing to do my part as an atheist. It's been weeks since I participated in a Satanic human sacrifice, ate a baby, or had an abortion.

I promise to try harder.

Boru

You know, technically you can combine all three...

Ahhh... what a time saver!

[Fake Messiah]

Why Egypt Has Rekindled Its War On Atheism

Sameh Raouf stopped going to church about 10 years ago. His mother noticed, and after weeks of prodding, he confessed he no longer believed in Christianity or Christ.

“All religions are human fabrications,” he told her.

More worried than enraged, she sought help from a priest who tried in vain to bring him back into the fold.

“My family called me ‘unclean’ and threw me out,” Raouf said.

So he moved to northern Egypt to live with his grandmother, who was his last refuge.

“But still, they wouldn’t let me live in that poor destitute village and threatened to kill me because I had become a source of shame. When they disowned me, I fled to Hurghada,” he recalled.

But it’s not only Christians in Egypt who are turning away from their faith.

Asmaa Hussein, 23, said she rejected the concept of “faith” since she was a teen.

Hussein is convinced that God is the creation of religious scholars, a belief strengthened each time God’s name is used to justify killing and war. After researching the Abrahamic religions and rejecting Islam, the religion she was born into, she said she no longer believes in the existence of God due to unjustified religious obligations and the corruption and hypocrisy of religious men.

To confront this trend, Egypt’s Ministry of Youth and Sports recently launched “Youth Against Atheism,” a government program partnering with Al-Azhar, the country’s top Sunni Muslim institution and the Coptic Church to combat what officials call “electronic atheism” spreading through social media platforms.

The initiative targets five areas (Cairo, Suez, Minya, Giza and Qena) and marks an escalation in state efforts to address a phenomenon authorities claim has exploded from 866 declared atheists in 2014 to over three million by 2023 — a trend researchers say began in 2012, not long after the 2011 uprising that ousted Egypt’s 30-year dictator Hosni Mubarak.

A 2021 study by the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy documented how Egyptian atheists face systematic persecution, losing jobs, family ties and social standing. Interviews with several sources who say they are atheists reveal the deeply personal stories driving this trend: a senior surgeon predicted “Islam will end in 25 years”; two brothers abandoned their faith after suffocating under their fundamentalist Salafi family’s religious extremism; and a woman rejected Islam not because she was forced to observe it, but over what she sees as systemic gender discrimination in inheritance and marriage laws.

These testimonies expose the complex dynamics fueling Egypt’s atheism surge—not just Western influence or digital corruption, as officials suggest, but genuine grievances with religious authority, gender inequality and intellectual suppression. The irony is stark: a program designed to win hearts and minds through dialogue emerges in a context where questioning faith can destroy lives.

Author Ramy Yahya said confronting atheism is not a priority worth spending taxpayer money on.

“This is an empty initiative,” Ramy said. “Atheism is not a security or social threat to citizens, unlike religious extremism which is a source of violence and harassment. Misspending public resources reflects a flaw in the government’s vision.”

https://religionunplugged.com/news/egypt...-rekindled