"If there is an Us vs Them, it’s with 𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴." "One man said: Atheists have had their way and look what’s happened to the country." @luketryl.bsky.social shares fascinating focus group insights on religion across the UK.
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Atheists have had their way?? What atheists do you speak of? The atheist that owns a coffee shop or some shit has more power over the country than all of the Christians in our government? What nonsense. Always striving to be a victim.
aug 5, 2025, 12:09 am • 4 0 • view
Just let him join his god then if life is unsufferable here.
aug 5, 2025, 6:46 am • 1 0 • view
Damn lucky me that I'm agnostic and believe in aliens secretly visiting the planet And somehow an imaginary supreme being without an email address worshipped is better? There's separation of church and state so this entire subject can directly go into the 🗑️
aug 5, 2025, 10:11 am • 0 0 • view
And when the religious get their way - you get GAZA!
aug 5, 2025, 1:23 am • 1 0 • view
I think that is about land.
aug 5, 2025, 5:17 am • 0 0 • view
Well look at all the religious wars, hasn't it essentially been about property and money in the guise of conversion to the true god?
aug 5, 2025, 6:22 am • 1 0 • view
We don’t need corrupt religions dabbling in politics!
aug 4, 2025, 9:07 am • 16 0 • view
I listened to the episode yesterday and I have to congratulate @newsagents.bsky.social for finding some of the most psychologically damaged and delusional individuals that are part of society, that must have been some task. Also thank you for reminding us sensible atheists that we're the sane ones!
aug 4, 2025, 12:20 pm • 10 0 • view
Ah, so it's political then? Should've guessed...
aug 4, 2025, 9:31 am • 3 0 • view
You can guarantee that the people who most espouse “Christian values” are the least likely to live by its central philosophy of peace, turning the cheek and love for one’s neighbour.
aug 4, 2025, 9:11 am • 66 1 • view
They are easier to manipulate with imaginary crap which is a lot harder with people who don't unconditionally believe what is being told based on who says it They can simply add some religious unrelated connections to the subject and et voila ze magic happens
aug 5, 2025, 10:16 am • 1 0 • view
I don’t do business with people who talk about how Christian they are anymore. Been screwed in two business deals worse than any other deal gone wrong with people of unknown or no faith.
aug 5, 2025, 4:59 am • 14 0 • view
I don't want to hear about Christian values from the party of political intolerance, white fear-mongering, and cultural suppression known as the right wing.
aug 6, 2025, 7:33 pm • 1 0 • view
When have atheists ever had their way?
aug 5, 2025, 9:39 am • 0 0 • view
So which religion is the one true religion? I can think of some which are much better for humanity than Christianity as it is used today. Sikhism for example. How about the much ignored Quaker movement? Ah not the right type of Christians.
aug 5, 2025, 5:58 am • 0 0 • view
I have no problem with people believing whatever they want, but I have a big problem with people forcing their beliefs on others. Organised religion is almost entirely a negative influence today.
aug 5, 2025, 6:43 am • 10 1 • view
Really? Atheists are the problem? Extraordinary. Rapists are usually what? Religious. Religion has caused war for years. Crime? Look at religious conservatives in America with their guns - school shootings? Look at the fighting between Hamas and Israel! Religious beliefs divide.
aug 4, 2025, 9:46 am • 32 1 • view
Let’s also never, ever forget how Religions treat woman and children. Even the nuns in the Catholic church get raped by the men. None of that shouts better than Atheists.
aug 4, 2025, 2:06 pm • 15 0 • view
Hahahahahaha Atheists have never had our way with anything. Weve always had to put up with your shit. Religion and its nonsense have controlled every known single human civilization, up to the current era. There is no Atheist nation on earth, and only 7% of the global population is Atheist. Fuck off
aug 4, 2025, 10:41 pm • 6 0 • view
You’ve lost me with this one. Wide steer.
aug 4, 2025, 11:17 am • 6 0 • view
Well that’s some Grade A bullshit right there
aug 4, 2025, 10:48 pm • 5 0 • view
We are not atheists, we are humanists, without a backward looking, mystical, hateful, divisive religion!
aug 5, 2025, 8:31 am • 2 0 • view
I’m an atheist and I can tell you that I’m much nicer than the religious people around me. Truth.
aug 4, 2025, 10:36 pm • 16 0 • view
My main problem with religious people is how they always go around talking about how much better they are than others. Good thing atheists never do that… 🤔
aug 5, 2025, 5:54 am • 1 0 • view
Better? Who is to say who is better? Except that the person who can extend their heart to all people and are blind to whatever religious group they happen to fall under or skin color they have is definitely more ‘fulfilled’, I can tell you that. Atheists are free to love freely. Love freely, all.
aug 5, 2025, 11:06 am • 0 0 • view
You literally said yourself that you’re much nicer than religious people around you. Ever heard the expression “self-righteousness stinks”?
aug 5, 2025, 11:56 am • 0 0 • view
Me too . And also , I don’t worry about going to Hell . So , “religious” people shouldn’t fuck around with others because you’ll get yours either here or in your case I guess “there” . It doesn’t matter where but you will. It’s called Karma. It’s real.
aug 5, 2025, 4:16 am • 4 0 • view
Well many religions are called death cults because the rewards are only given to the believers once they are dead.
aug 5, 2025, 6:00 am • 4 0 • view
Terrible journalism to quote one person's viewpoint and not ask for the facts to support that opinion.
aug 4, 2025, 9:36 am • 23 0 • view
OK let's look at things like crime - it's falling. Apparently having an sky fairy as a friend doesn't make you informed even when you claim He's omniscient.
aug 4, 2025, 11:22 am • 0 0 • view
We’ll trade you your atheists for our Christian right
aug 5, 2025, 3:33 am • 8 0 • view
Hell - give them a 2 for 1 offer!
aug 5, 2025, 7:56 am • 3 0 • view
lol the fact atheists exist scares him? then he realizes he's a liar
aug 4, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Lmao
aug 5, 2025, 1:27 am • 0 0 • view
"Christian values" seem to represent a turning back of the clock to some imagined golden age, much like the far right believe. Society is constantly moving on, we can't afford to go backwards. Christian values are very unforgiving e.g. in terms of homosexuality, feminism, punishment for crimes etc.
aug 4, 2025, 2:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Atheists don't go around knocking on peoples front doors trying to force their beliefs on people
aug 4, 2025, 11:29 am • 2 0 • view
Oh fuck off you religious dip shit
aug 5, 2025, 6:21 am • 0 0 • view
Since when have atheists had their way? What evidence is there? And if we have, what evidence is there that it’s caused the issues he thinks it has? Do those issues exist? Or should we have “faith” that religion will fix it all in contradiction to 2000 years of evidence?
aug 4, 2025, 10:02 am • 10 0 • view
Strange isn't it when many people in politics can't stop bleating about being religious as if it is a shortcut to being a good person. Also in the House of Lords there are 26 bishops, Lords Spiritual, who vote on legislation.
aug 5, 2025, 6:05 am • 2 0 • view
I think all those stupid God Botherers should actually look at stats and facts - then again that's not what the religious do, they want someone else to tell them what to do and how to live. Fair enough, their choice, just please don't try and push it on me thanks.
aug 4, 2025, 9:13 am • 15 0 • view
If this is the best God can do I’m not impressed
aug 4, 2025, 10:45 pm • 1 0 • view
LOLOLOLOLOL
aug 4, 2025, 1:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Nearly every prime minister of the past however many centuries has been Christian, Jewish or Hindu. According to the humanitarian society we've had 6 PMs who aren't openly religious, all 20th century, one of whom is Churchill. So actually maybe religion HAS dominated our politics.
aug 4, 2025, 9:51 am • 3 0 • view
All he needs is a big red nose and floppy shoes.
aug 5, 2025, 4:52 am • 0 0 • view
I blame Monty Python(!)
aug 4, 2025, 10:01 am • 0 0 • view
If we had our way, there would be NO religion
aug 5, 2025, 2:36 am • 5 0 • view
Ah how we long for a time when white Christian Britain lived in complete harmony..... 'The Reformation led to centuries of religious conflict and tension between Catholics and Protestants in England and beyond.'
aug 4, 2025, 9:58 am • 4 0 • view
I hear that Tommy Robinson has ' got religion'. Not sure he understood the turn the other cheek bit!
aug 5, 2025, 12:05 pm • 0 0 • view
This was a terrific episode. The community and social fabric of the post-war state are gone. "No man can serve two masters." God vs. materialism. If materialism isn't offering the goods, it isn't a suprise that the young turn to God.
aug 4, 2025, 9:14 am • 1 0 • view
“Accumulating stuff didn’t make me happy, maybe pretending it’s not my job to find my own meaning in life will do it.” 🤦♂️
aug 5, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view
They aren't turning to God. They are turning to religion. Completely different.
aug 4, 2025, 9:16 am • 7 0 • view
I am not sure. You should hear the interviews. They talk about finding god and then searching for religion. Two talk about apparitions before going to church. I think it's more than going to church to fill a community void, I was perhaps being glib in my original comment.
aug 4, 2025, 10:13 am • 1 0 • view
Having to believe in fairytales because reality is not offering anything positive is what I am seeing which shows how appalling the state has become. Governments have been failing the people over and over again.
aug 5, 2025, 6:18 am • 1 0 • view
No country on the planet should be governed based on a particular imaginary friend club. Laws set out by the people for ALL the people. Religion can get in the bin it causes wars and shields bad actors
aug 5, 2025, 8:55 am • 0 0 • view
Stop with the religion. These idiots are terrible to listen too
aug 4, 2025, 9:19 am • 4 0 • view
I think atheists will always be a bonding factor for the different religions because as much as they might dislike one another, they find common ground in hating atheists (and to some extent agnostics too) even more.
aug 5, 2025, 6:02 am • 0 0 • view
It's always the Xtians pointing the finger at everyone else, while also playing poor me persecuted. There's no heaven for them tho
aug 5, 2025, 6:40 am • 0 0 • view
That one man, who was probably you, because you won’t say who said it… was straight up wrong. At no point have atheist “had their way” in America. Many of the founding fathers/early American leaders were deists, the rest were Christian. Christians have always had political control. Always.
aug 5, 2025, 4:15 am • 4 0 • view
Thomas Paine will be turning in his grave. A very religious man who believed everyone had the right to their own beliefs, and also religion should play no part in politics. He rejected organised religions.
aug 5, 2025, 6:12 am • 0 0 • view
And I’m pretty sure Britain has always been controlled by Christian’s, too. It’s less dramatic, but. Brits are 46 percent Christian followed by 37% “none”
aug 5, 2025, 4:19 am • 1 0 • view
That number (46%) is correct, which surprised me. So I did a little more digging and it’s only 6% that actually practice by reading the bible or attending church at least monthly. This seems a lot more like the sense of it. Church attendance is in decline with some fluctuations.
aug 5, 2025, 8:22 am • 0 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/jent... Religious worms follow the rat and get eaten
aug 5, 2025, 2:09 am • 0 0 • view
The religious have had their way. It's called the dark ages.
aug 4, 2025, 9:12 am • 59 2 • view
I thought God was omnipresent?
aug 4, 2025, 9:07 am • 1 0 • view
Also omnipotent and omniscient. Sooooo....
aug 5, 2025, 6:19 am • 0 0 • view
Once you discover the insanity of religion and embrace atheism you are never going to go back. Religion is the worst thing ever for humanity.
aug 4, 2025, 4:36 pm • 11 0 • view
Every Born Again Christian I have ever met has been absolute arsehole. They prey on the lonely, uneducated and disadvantaged for their own gain.
aug 4, 2025, 9:49 am • 5 0 • view
Haven’t the Tories, Labour, Lib Dem’s and even Repuke quoted Christian morals etc in their PR. FO to all of them athiesism is the future for mankind.
aug 4, 2025, 9:15 pm • 2 0 • view
They keep saying British values without actually stating what these values are, then steal all the money for their mates then leave politics for a cushty well paid job as a thank you.
aug 5, 2025, 6:14 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah, it's those pesky atheists who cause all the crime...
aug 4, 2025, 9:34 am • 13 0 • view
This is bullshit.
aug 5, 2025, 6:28 am • 0 0 • view
Atheists are the most decent, moral people on the planet. We do the right thing without fear of a deterrent. We don’t need one to be kind.
aug 5, 2025, 4:03 am • 9 0 • view
We also shouldn’t need to go around telling others how good we are. Leave that to the religious.
aug 5, 2025, 5:38 am • 1 0 • view
I think it’s ok when it’s true.
aug 5, 2025, 11:02 am • 0 0 • view
It is not atheists’ fault. I’m a Jesus believer, and I do not think atheists are to blame. I think it’s television and it’s demon child, social media. Sorry but it’s mostly TV.
aug 5, 2025, 2:28 am • 0 0 • view
All religion is mental illness
aug 4, 2025, 12:35 pm • 5 0 • view
I’d class it more like mental weakness. Unable to exist unsupported by an external framework.
aug 5, 2025, 8:23 am • 1 0 • view
Yes that's why countries with the most religiosity are the ones that are... *checks notes*... the worst?
aug 4, 2025, 9:47 am • 21 0 • view
You wouldn't know I'm an atheist until you start preaching at me.
aug 4, 2025, 10:38 pm • 6 0 • view
Religious pluralism is interesting until it's not. Without secular government, they'll all wind up killing each other. They always do.
aug 4, 2025, 6:58 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm sure at some point Luke will put together a panel where 50% of the people on it are curious over if the moon is made of cheese He'll then produce a massive thread on it and talk about these idiots views as if somehow they matter Still it's a fantastic business idea he has got
aug 4, 2025, 9:26 am • 7 0 • view
Lololol. Did he name the actual atheists in office?
aug 5, 2025, 10:07 am • 0 0 • view