this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2025
36 points (86.0% liked)

Atheist Memes

6696 readers
3 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 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] quacky@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is a good point, and symbolically speaking, lying is almost like playing god considering that God is "all-knowing", and the liar is distorting knowledge. The liar assumes the power to know what others are thinking. Also, liars assume the power to change reality or perception of reality. Generally, lying is a power, which resembles god because he is all powerful. Using power to ill-ends is obviously undesirable. In the Adam & Eve story, snakes, generally, are symbols of lies, and the apple was a symbol of desire / knowledge / becoming god-like. So coming back to your point, conjuring up a boogieman, or conning someone, is diety-like because you are using the realm of imagination (i.e., god) to change reality, but it's snake-like or satan-like to manipulate imagination to harmful ends. Notably, imagination is also "timeless, spaceless, and immaterial" and in my opinion i think god is imaginary. "God is imaginary" is very atheist sounding, but It's also religious from a platonic forms perspective.