What religion/faith are you?
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There's nothing passionate about this. I couldn't care less if anyone "appreciates" my reasoning or not. However, you oppose arguments with arguments not with "appreciation". I thank you for your... condescension.
Hi, fellow atheist here. ^^^ This ^^^ is not a good look. Just FYI.
I am sorry.
I'm a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids. For me, Druidry is more a philosophy than religion. I fall somewhere in the gray area between agnosticism and belief and will likely give you a different answer as to where I am precisely on that spectrum on any given day.
So you don't believe that mistletoe has to be cut with a golden sickle in order to retain its magical powers?
I've always enjoyed reading John Michael Greer's works.
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I'm a bargain basement druid. Gold-plated is fine.
As have I. I recently discovered he has also written some sort of Lovecraftian fiction I've added to my "want to read" list.
Quite the handsome book
https://www.miskatonicbooks.com/pro...chael-greer-signed-limited-edition-hardcover/
As for me--I'm not sure what to believe.
I can be negative at times--but epiphanies odd events seem to get through somehow.
I never bought a cell phone--I think that alone leaves me a bit more mindful than many these days.
Some in the East want us to clear our minds.
I feel best when my mind is racing.
https://www.miskatonicbooks.com/pro...chael-greer-signed-limited-edition-hardcover/
As for me--I'm not sure what to believe.
I can be negative at times--but epiphanies odd events seem to get through somehow.
I never bought a cell phone--I think that alone leaves me a bit more mindful than many these days.
Some in the East want us to clear our minds.
I feel best when my mind is racing.
Well, quite. Whatever First Cause these arguments supposedly prove the exisence of, assuming it's even a coherent concept, seems a long way removed from a sentient megabeing that takes an active interest in human affairs.
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We have no claim on something that was never ours to begin with. No creature created themselves or the world in which they were placed.
Why should I need to provide evidence for not believing in deities, spirits, supernatural mythic beings, etc.? If I'm expected to believe in something, show me the evidence it exists or that it's at least plausible according to known scientific principles.
Atheism is what you get when people opt not to go with the supernatural.
In my experience, fundamentalists don't worry about the laws of physics. They either deny they exist or they just make them up to support whatever they're talking about.
The thing about the laws of physics is that they work irrespective of whether there are any lifeforms that understand them or have even thought about them at all. Humans won't be around forever, and after our species is gone, the laws of physics will still work just fine. They don't need us.
And no, I am not looking for any gods. Been there, done that, and with every religion in history insisting that they are the only true explanation, it occurred to me that they can't all be right. And the more I learned about how the universe works, I concluded that none of them are right. They were all created by humans, out of humans' need for explaining what they considered unexplainable.
Well, some of those things are either now explained, or are becoming more explainable as we learn more. It would be nice if the religions of the world would catch up accordingly.
Wrong.
That's how I feel about Mormons, JWs, and anyone else who leaves pamphlets in my mailbox, knocks on my door, tries to get me to buzz them into my apartment building (solicitors aren't allowed here, and these nuisances never think it applies to them as well), starts preaching to me at bus stops, or judges me by whether or not I go to church.
Funny how not one person who has done the above intrusive activities has been atheist. We don't "prothalitze" people (the word you're looking for is "proselytize"). Atheism is not a religion.
Unfortunately, many forms don't have that option. Even the poll for this thread doesn't have that option. Atheism is not a religion, and I have written this in the comment section on the long-form federal census I had to fill out a few years ago.
To keep everything from happening simultaneously.
In no way does that lead to such a conclusion. But I appreciate your passionate proselytizing on behalf of atheism.This thread is a nice way to see what beliefs are represented, but there's a noticeable push against a certain set of beliefs in God.
Believe whatever nonsense you want, but keep it out of the legislation, courts, hospitals, schools - emphasis on science and health classes, pharmacies, and my doorstep. And if you're a YEC, stop driving and using anything made of plastic or other fossil fuels. By their "logic", such things don't exist.
And would someone please correct the spelling in the poll. It's "atheist" not "athiest."
Of course not. That's not the analogy I'd use for the mankind-God relationship.
But you said that we have no claim on something that was never ours to begin with. No creature created themselves or the world in which they were placed. If God took away our air and sun, we are as dead as that theoretical murdered child.
If I built a shelter for homeless people and then one year after they all moved in I burnt it to the ground, would I be just in that action?
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