this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
822 points (97.2% liked)

Atheist Memes

5578 readers
28 users here now

About

A community for the most based memes from atheists, agnostics, antitheists, and skeptics.

Rules

  1. No Pro-Religious or Anti-Atheist Content.

  2. No Unrelated Content. All posts must be memes related to the topic of atheism and/or religion.

  3. No bigotry.

  4. Attack ideas not people.

  5. Spammers and trolls will be instantly banned no exceptions.

  6. No False Reporting

  7. NSFW posts must be marked as such.

Resources

International Suicide Hotlines

Recovering From Religion

Happy Whole Way

Non Religious Organizations

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Atheist Republic

Atheists for Liberty

American Atheists

Ex-theist Communities

!exchristian@lemmy.one

!exmormon@lemmy.world

!exmuslim@lemmy.world

Other Similar Communities

!religiouscringe@midwest.social

!priest_arrested@lemmy.world

!atheism@lemmy.world

!atheism@lemmy.ml

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The sun has a lot of traits that seem pretty godly.

If you look at the sun directly, it damages your eyes. Without the protection of the earth's atmosphere and magnetic field, the sun's rays would fry you crispy in seconds.

At the same time, we need the sun's energy daily, or life would rapidly die and the world would freeze. Too much (some CMEs in geological history) will bake all surface life crispy. Too little (some volcanic winters) and we have mass famines due to sequential bad crops.

Imagine the sun a human body. A blood draw is comparably the rest of the whole solar system. A drop on the slide is the earth. That's us. The aggregate of our joy and suffering etc. We're a tiny drop of star stuff.

I think people who think the universe is about us or about Jesus just cannot grasp perspective regarding the magnitude of our sun, the solar system and the universe beyond. It gives zero fucks about how often microbes on a speck of dust masturbate.

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Idk, nothing about the sun evokes trashy, manipulative, baseless fan fiction. As far as I can tell that is the only actual trait possessed by anything god related.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

It's true. Boring gods may make for easy civilization development but don't make entertaining stories.

[–] lanolinoil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Especially with humans living through the ice age.

Praise the Sun!