non-white atheists Anonymous 12/30/14 (Tue) 17:39:00 55bf03 No. 374
Any non-white atheists in here? Just curious how others deal with being a non-believer. Personally, I'm black and left a cult at the age of 21. When I tell other black people about how I left the JW's, they are sympathetic then ask: So what do you believe in now? I tell them I'm atheist and they flip the fuck out.
Anonymous 12/30/14 (Tue) 18:31:51 ef318c No. 375
>>374 Mixed breed here. Never really liked the idea of there being a god as a legitimate reason as to how and why things happen— I never got religion pushed onto me by my single mother. My nignog father preached that kind of stuff to me implying I adopted Christianity. That was until I just flat out told him I don't believe in his god. As I was young, I didn't pull up a very good debate, but I wanted to make up for that by actually learning over time how to explain why it's completely unnecessary to have a religion, or believe in a god and do something that actually benefits humanity.
Er, sorry for the blog. But if you're asking for the reactions people normally get when I tell them I'm atheist, it's that they either agree or don't care/don't open up for debate. Apathetic folk.
Personally, I find it really annoying when people imply the presence of higher powers as an excuse to get away with whatever bias they want to push on people.
Anonymous 12/31/14 (Wed) 07:55:21 1baf23 No. 392
White guy here, just posting here to ask: what it was like being in the Jehova's Witnesses?
Anonymous 12/31/14 (Wed) 17:55:32 52eaa9 No. 403
>>392 Interesting, because it actually varies by the culture. While they pride themselves in being a worldwide organization that believes the same doctrine, there is actually a spectrum of traditions and conservatism among them. My experience in a majority black congregation has been different from a black childhood friend who moved to a rural majority white congregation.
Holidays for example. We are well known for not following "pagan" holidays. So obviously Christmas and birthdays are consistently a no-no. But for secondary holidays like New Year's and wedding anniversaries, I took part in, but my friend was scolded for it. My congregation, a majority poor congregation, encouraged its youth to go to college or at least trade school. But my friend was called "worldly" (an insult for JW's) for wanting to go to college. (They're scared of being taught evolution). Even when I went to a Spanish speaking territory with Latinos, their attitude toward drinking was much more lax than the black congregations, and especially the rural white ones.
At the end of the day, I left for strictly ideological reasons. My friend left because she was being abused and the congregation either ignored her or blamed her for it. So there's a variance.
It does suck though, knowing that the ones who claimed to love you will literally shun you if you change your beliefs. That's consistent no matter where you are.
Anonymous 01/01/15 (Thu) 16:49:39 e1b9c9 No. 416
Native American atheist here. None of my peers care.
Anonymous 01/01/15 (Thu) 17:33:44 52eaa9 No. 420
>>416 Cool. Are most of the also atheist or just non-nagging religious?
Anonymous 01/01/15 (Thu) 20:55:12 3e87f6 No. 425
Probably the only if not part of the few beaner atheists alive, grew up with catholic parents, somewhere along my teenage years, I called bullshit on creationism.
Anonymous 01/01/15 (Thu) 21:52:12 e1b9c9 No. 426
>>420 About half and half.
Anonymous 01/03/15 (Sat) 15:30:37 a6f3f4 No. 480
>>374 Black atheist her, I know am a rare bread, what's up anon.
Anonymous 01/03/15 (Sat) 19:04:04 8b6ea0 No. 492
>>374>Indian >Ex-hindu >Lost faith at 12 >Starting doubting the faith at 8
Anonymous 01/05/15 (Mon) 03:09:52 1baf23 No. 537
>>492 Why don't you tell us your story then? Too scarring?
Anonymous 01/05/15 (Mon) 17:53:34 b65358 No. 574
>>537 What this anon said. I'd really like to know.
Anonymous 01/06/15 (Tue) 01:06:33 52eaa9 No. 588
Anonymous 01/06/15 (Tue) 03:20:32 12af40 No. 589
Another black atheist here. My parents are immigrants but I was born in the US. I laugh at the Blacks in the US with ancestors who were slaves but still lub them some jesus.
Anonymous 01/06/15 (Tue) 22:41:04 e18e53 No. 600
>>589 Unless your native American or some version of Native. it is guaranteed for you to be immigrant.
Anonymous 01/07/15 (Wed) 03:18:41 55b9bf No. 609
Chilean mestizo here. People still look me with a weird face when they ask me what religion i am and i say i'm a non-believer.
Anonymous 01/09/15 (Fri) 09:58:00 d0bd85 No. 639
Beaner here. Honestly it's not a big deal for me because my family is what you would call culturally Catholic. Yea, I had to do a first communion, but after that the only time I went to church was for Christmas or Easter. I told my mother I was a godless heathen, it was somewhat anticlimactic, thankfully. I tried talking about why I did not view the bible as being a reliable source and she basically said I should probably try talking to a priest about it.>"Why would anyone do such a thing? How could a parent let their child die like that?" >"Well they believe in jihad, they think they will be rewarded in paradise." >"But why would they believe something so silly? Don't they realize they are being manipulated into giving up their lives?" >She is Catholic >Believes she will go to hell if she does bad things
Anonymous 01/10/15 (Sat) 01:03:01 b1d03e No. 654
Puerto Rican. So I guess that's Hispanic?
Anonymous 01/10/15 (Sat) 03:20:06 6f3094 No. 655
>>589 It really blows my mind how all the white colonists came to North America, brutally conquered the natives, took natives from other places as slaves, and propagandized to them so effectively that their descendants follow the religion of the conquerors. I mean, if you're a Mexican or an African-American, how can you praise Jesus knowing that?
Anonymous 01/14/15 (Wed) 05:20:11 1b0447 No. 806
>>654 >brown >western hemisphere >south of canada Yep, that's Hispanic.
Anonymous 01/14/15 (Wed) 05:22:11 1b0447 No. 807
>>655 Mexican and African-American people are all mixed with Europeans to some extent. They're just adopting the religion that survived. Not a lot of people going door to door telling you about the good news of Quetzalcoatl.
Anonymous 01/14/15 (Wed) 05:25:33 1b0447 No. 808
>>600 Even the red Indian Americans were immigrants at one point. Unless your definition of native is "the first people to set foot on the land." But in that case, there were many many groups of people in the Americas, and there were many many wars in which land got taken over. It's entirely possible that when the Europeans arrived, there was no patch of land on those continents that still belonged to the first ethnic group to live on it.
Anonymous 01/18/15 (Sun) 10:40:27 921a2b No. 978
>>374 This gif is lovely. Every race having fun in its own way. A progressive utopia.
Anonymous 01/18/15 (Sun) 14:27:19 f0af93 No. 980
>>808 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Spreading_homo_sapiens_la.svg Right you are anon, in fact the further north in the america's you go the more recent the people are. The current Inuit peoples actually reached east canada at around the same time as the vikings. As Native American ancestors moved into north america from russia they either pushed the tribe living there already to the south/east, interbred, or eliminated them completely. It's also why if you look at a linguistic map of north america the langauge families have such wide gaps in them:
http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/rehling/nativeAm/continent.gif No one except afrians whose ancestry goes back tens of thousands of years can claim to be a "true" native.
Anonymous 01/18/15 (Sun) 21:45:38 8e4ad0 No. 1012
Does Hispanic of 100% European ancestry count?
Anonymous 01/18/15 (Sun) 23:43:56 e75165 No. 1018
Hispanic/beaner here. It sort of sucks being an atheist in the family because majority of my family are usually hyper-religious Catholics, so I get the weird looks as well as the gossip of sterotypical Mexican families have often put me in a bad light because I don't believe.
Anonymous 01/19/15 (Mon) 00:22:04 1b0447 No. 1021
>>980 > the further north in the america's you go the more recent the people are >the colder it is the longer it took people to settle there Makes sense.
Anonymous 01/19/15 (Mon) 00:24:39 1b0447 No. 1023
>>1012 You are both white and Hispanic. As far as non-white goes, you're Schrodinger's Ethnicity.
Anonymous 01/20/15 (Tue) 04:16:14 1c68d1 No. 1083
>>425 mexicunt here, racially nordic though.
>>492 interesting background bro.
>When somebody says religion is harmless i get a impulsive need to strangle him. don't! religion is obviously not harmless but there's a whole spectrum of religious insanity, and you can't fight stupidity with more stupidity
>>374 >So what do you believe in now? I tell them I'm atheist I laugh at that kind of question, and the usual atheist answer seems inadequate IMO. atheists believe in a fuckton of things, they just don't believe in the existence of deities. closed-minded nutjobs seem to think atheism imply not being able to believe that 1+1=2 or that the Earth orbits the Sun, or maybe they fail to recognise those beliefs??
>>807 lel, true. Don't you follow the parole of our Lord Kukul-Kan?
Anonymous 01/21/15 (Wed) 02:34:06 52eaa9 No. 1157
>>1083 I guess yeah, that is the truest answer to that type of question. I study some Eastern philosophies. And while I don't devote myself to it religiously, it's still helped me in keeping a grounded state of mind in life.
But again, the type of people who ask these questions aren't really interested in what you believe. Usually asked as a moral jumpoff.
Anonymous 01/21/15 (Wed) 11:19:50 ee6f02 No. 1166
>>492 >SJWs >Atheists This is a joke, right?
atheism+ is the only time this happened and that did not turn out well.
Anonymous 01/22/15 (Thu) 06:14:53 d9319c No. 1235
Half Filipino here. My dad is a white guy from Minnesota, my mom was born and raised in the Manila. My mom is uncomfortable with me being an atheist. She converted from Catholic to Baptist for my dad. She keeps trying to convince me to become a Buddhist, because "at least they have a religion."
MishaLover 01/30/15 (Fri) 06:07:48 1dcec7 No. 1759
>>374 Latino. Lost faith around Middle School. I keep it mostly to myself, but my family knows.
Anonymous 04/24/15 (Fri) 16:50:34 de7bac No. 7170
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Half filipino and white Californian here. My mom's side is not religious (which is unusual for filipinos I know,) so my aunt etc don't care much. Since we are filipino we have a million Catholic relatives and I don't tell them my views.
My American side is more religious though. They're Baptists who believe that everything bad comes from the devil. My Californian father divorced my mom and married a Kentucky Southerner so now he is even more religious and more of a bigot than before. The two have a feedback loop where they make each other more backwards as they talk. My dad commutes with coworkers that play gospel songs in the car, and he thinks I fell in with a bad crowd or read some books by Atheists. He doesn't understand that reading the bible turned me Atheist, and even though I've tried to explain it to him he gets upset.
Anonymous 04/25/15 (Sat) 09:07:13 a38ba0 No. 7187
>>403
No birthdays? Where do you get your LEGOS from if there are no brthdays?
Anonymous 05/23/15 (Sat) 18:21:39 d94ef2 No. 7962
>>374
Another white atheist here, but I'm pretty involved in the community here. We've got Minority Atheists of Michigan and Black Nonbelievers of Detroit. You should look for or start a group!
Anonymous 05/26/15 (Tue) 22:21:07 fc18df No. 8100
>>374
Is it harder to atheist a non-white?
Anonymous 05/26/15 (Tue) 22:31:13 cae435 No. 8102
Canadian Paki here. Family doesn't give a shit, so my head is still firmly attached to my neck.
>>8100
White parents tend to be the most liberal, so in a sense it can be. Also, some apostates of religions like Islam have a pretty shitty time (I was relatively lucky).
Anonymous 08/27/15 (Thu) 10:50:46 c82d06 No. 10741
Bump because I don't want to feel alone.
Anonymous 08/27/15 (Thu) 07:01:15 5d682d No. 10746
>>10741
Why do you need other nonwhites atheist?
Anonymous 08/27/15 (Thu) 16:41:48 c82d06 No. 10757
>>10746
Just a bit of a joke.
But seriously, I want to know why atheism seems more common in white people than other races. Is it more access to education, cultural, or another factor?
Anonymous 08/27/15 (Thu) 19:56:35 60742a No. 10759
>>10757
At least for black people it was sometimes beneficial in the past. They could meet and form communities and whites couldn't say much against it because it was a christian thing.
But if you are rich then you probably don't want the social pressure and you want more liberty. You have access to education and different ideas. Your ideas about religion become less literal and more liberal.
Anonymous 08/27/15 (Thu) 23:50:33 000000 No. 10761
>>374
Overseas Chinese atheist born in Indonesia, a super religious country where atheism is against the state philosophy, and therefore not recognized by the state. (It's like US with only Republicans in the government)
Their constitution defines "freedom of religion" as "freedom to choose one of the six state-approved religions". Yuck.
Unless atheists are pretending to be religious, atheists (and people with minority beliefs) face bureaucratic hurdles when it comes to registrations, marriage, death, etc. There's even one case where an openly atheist guy was lynched by neighbors, arrested by police, and charged with "blasphemy".
It's hard to find and meet other atheists since most of them are closeted (me included.) Atheists/agnostics are estimated to be as rare as 1 in 100,000.
My parents won't help me either. They are fundamentalist christians. Sucks to be here.
Anonymous 08/28/15 (Fri) 04:53:00 4faf1e No. 10769
>>10761
How did you find out that there is no god?
Did you think you came up with it by yourself?
Anonymous 08/28/15 (Fri) 15:51:39 52dee1 No. 10779
>>10761
Isn't Indonesia really Islamic?
Anonymous 08/28/15 (Fri) 21:04:12 68cbb2 No. 10788
>>10761
I hope you get the oportunity to leave that country someday anon