I am Ganesh, an Indian atheist and I don't eat beef. It's not like that I have a religious reason to do that, but after all those years seeing cows as peaceful animals and playing and growing up with them in a village, I doubt if I ever will be able to eat beef. I wasn't raised very religious, I didn't go to temple everyday and read Gita every evening unlike most muslims who are somewhat serious about their religion, my family has this watered down religion (which has it's advantages).

But yeah, not eating beef is a moral issue I deal with. I mean, I don't care that I don't eat beef, but the fact that I eat pork and chicken but not beef seems to me to be weird. So, is there any religious practice that you guys follow to this day?

edit: I like religious music, religious temples (Churches, Gurudwara's, Temples & Mosques in Iran), religious paintings and art sometimes. I know for a fact that the only art you could produce is those days was indeed religious and the greatest artists needed to make something religious to be funded, that we will never know what those artists would have produced in the absence of religion, but yeah, religious art is good nonetheless.

  • Big_Bob [any]
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    9 months ago

    I call myself an atheist simply because I don't believe that any current religious institution has the correct answer.

    I've had mystical experiences and my own reasoning tells me that there is far more to the world than we are able to experience or even imagine.

    But none of it corresponds to any religions I know of. The closest is maybe Buddhism, but I don't think it's the right choice for me.

    And I'm not even sure if there are any Buddhist organisations out here in the norwegian countryside.

    Guess I'll just have to go through my existential crisis on my own. shrug-outta-hecks

    • @lud@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      I call myself an atheist simply because I don't believe that any current religious institution has the correct answer.

      That's not really atheist since thats denying any gods or similar phenomenon and it sound more line agnosticism or even theism

      • @Chriskmee@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        Most Atheists define Atheism as "lack of belief in a God", which seems like it applies here. Agnostic is usually defined as "lack of knowledge of a God", which also works here, so both Agnostic and Atheist.

        It makes sense when you look at Theist (with belief in a God) and Gnostic (with knowledge of a God) that adding an A before it just means "without".