What Religion Do You Practice/Not Practice and Why?

[Riva]

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(Though the term is technically an oxymoron, I would best be described as an apatheist as I've stated numerous times on the forum.)

Typical INTP answer. Also very boring.

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[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

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Please tell me what other gods you worship. Don't bore me by saying that you are an agnostic. Please accept my apologies if you have already mentioned this and I have missed it.

I'm a non-practicing Jew.

I'd say I was a Spinozan. It seems to describe my ideas on the God thing at least some of the time. I find it hard to make a leap to a totally random universe that suddenly just happened. I find existentialism to be sort of empty, like hitting myself with a red rubber ball over and over.

 

[Riva]

I'm a non-practicing Jew.

I'd say I was a Spinozan. It seems to describe my ideas on the God thing at least some of the time. I find it hard to make a leap to a totally random universe that suddenly just happened. I find existentialism to be sort of empty, like hitting myself with a red rubber ball over and over.

See Fluffy, ^ is interesting.

I should read more on it. Perhaps watch a short (max minutes) documentary on it.

It's a western philosophy. As with all western philosophies I wouldn't be surprised if it has much to do with wisdom (understanding) than practice.

Stoicism seems to be a good exception.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

See Fluffy, ^ is interesting.

I should read more on it. Perhaps watch a short (max minutes) documentary on it.

It's a western philosophy. As with all western philosophies I wouldn't be surprised if it has much to do with wisdom (understanding) than practice.

Stoicism seems to be a good exception.

People keep referring me to that. I guess I'll have to check it out at some point.

 

[Passacaglia]

I'm a non-practicing Jew.

I'd say I was a Spinozan. It seems to describe my ideas on the God thing at least some of the time. I find it hard to make a leap to a totally random universe that suddenly just happened. I find existentialism to be sort of empty, like hitting myself with a red rubber ball over and over.

As a practicing existentialist, I find this to be the most quirkily humurous simile for existentialism I've ever heard.

 

[Evee]

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Please tell me what other gods you worship. Don't bore me by saying that you are an agnostic. Please accept my apologies if you have already mentioned this and I have missed it.

Azura, the goddess of twilight.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

As a practicing existentialist, I find this to be the most quirkily humurous simile for existentialism I've ever heard.

I stole it from a Marky Mark film.

 

[/DG/]

Lol. The first time I answered a thread like this I said I was a Christian. Definite atheist now.

 

[Qlip]

I'm considering founding an Orphic cult, because this is baller.

You will find on the right in Hades' halls a spring, and by it stands a ghostly cypress-tree, where the dead souls descending wash away their lives. Do not even draw nigh this spring. Further on you will find chill water flowing from the pool of Memory: over this stand guardians. They will ask you with keen mind what is your quest in the gloom of deadly Hades. They will ask you for what reason you have come. Tell them the whole truth straight out. Say: 'I am the son of Earth and starry Heaven, but of Heaven is my birth: this you know yourselves. I am parched with thirst and perishing: give me quickly chill water flowing from the pool of Memory.' Assuredly the kings of the underworld take pity on you, and will themselves give you water from the spring divine; then you, when you have drunk, traverse the holy path which other initiates and bacchants tread in glory. After that you will rule amongst the other heroes.

 

[Mole]

Lol. The first time I answered a thread like this I said I was a Christian. Definite atheist now.

Yes, to be an atheist (a-theist) we need a God to be against. Thank heavens there are so many Gods to be against. It is an atheists' picnic.

So strictly speaking we should describe ourselves as Christian Atheists, or Hindu Atheists, or Muslim Atheists, or Pagan Atheists.

Each form of atheism is radically different depending on the God being rejected. To lump us all in as just Atheists hides the multiplicity and rainbow colours of Atheism.

 

[Lark]

Yes, to be an atheist (a-theist) we need a God to be against. Thank heavens there are so many Gods to be against. It is an atheists' picnic.

So strictly speaking we should describe ourselves as Christian Atheists, or Hindu Atheists, or Muslim Atheists, or Pagan Atheists.

Each form of atheism is radically different depending on the God being rejected. To lump us all in as just Atheists hides the multiplicity and rainbow colours of Atheism.

The only athiests I ever had time for were in fact naturalists or materialists and keener to be known as such.

The athiest and a theist share one thing in common, a preoccupation with God, which may not be strictly how God or good religion plans or expects life to be best lived and served.

 

[Mole]

The only athiests I ever had time for were in fact naturalists or materialists and keener to be known as such.

The athiest and a theist share one thing in common, a preoccupation with God, which may not be strictly how God or good religion plans or expects life to be best lived and served.

And interestingly we have anti-theists to add to theists and atheists, courtesy of Christopher Hitchens.

And indeed an avowed and published anti-theist killed a whole family of theists just the other day in the USA with, what a surprise, a gun.

The theists are awake to this anti-theism wheeze and rallied in their thousands, thousands of muslims in the USA, to rail against their new enemy, anti-theism.

It doesn't pay to be an enemy of Islam.

 

[Lark]

And interestingly we have anti-theists to add to theists and atheists, courtesy of Sam Harris. And indeed an avowed and published anti-theist killed a whole family of theists just the other day in the USA with, what a surprise, a gun.

The theists are awake to this anti-theism wheeze and rallied in their thousands, thousands of muslims in the USA, to rail against their new enemy, anti-theism.

It doesn't pay to be an enemy of Islam.

Get you turning the deaths of a bunch of muslims at the hand of a lunatic into a crime perpetuated by islam.

Dont really know were to begin with that one.

 

[Mole]

Get you turning the deaths of a bunch of muslims at the hand of a lunatic into a crime perpetuated by islam.

Dont really know were to begin with that one.

I think it is plain that muslims in the USA have realised that anti-theism is primarily directed at them, and I expect they will now fight against it.

 

[Lark]

I think it is plain that muslims in the USA have realised that anti-theism is primarily directed at them, and I expect they will now fight against it.

Well if this forum was anything to go by there's as much or more hating on Christianity than there is Islam.

The most bitter sorts of atheism I've ever encountered are in the english speaking world, there's nothing like it in France even, the most hyper secular place there is going, and the english speaking world was once the standard bearer for Christianity, or maybe I'm conflating protestantism with Christianity, which is a broader idea. Dont really know.

 

[Mole]

Well if this forum was anything to go by there's as much or more hating on Christianity than there is Islam.

The most bitter sorts of atheism I've ever encountered are in the english speaking world, there's nothing like it in France even, the most hyper secular place there is going, and the english speaking world was once the standard bearer for Christianity, or maybe I'm conflating protestantism with Christianity, which is a broader idea. Dont really know.

Well, we can blaspheme against Christianity with impunity, but blaspheming against Islam is life threatening.

 

[Lark]

Well, we can blaspheme against Christianity with impunity, but blaspheming against Islam is life threatening.

Not really.

 

[á´…eparted]

Not really.

Guess you haven't been looking at the middle east enough.

 

[Nicodemus]

The only athiests I ever had time for were in fact naturalists or materialists and keener to be known as such.

The athiest and a theist share one thing in common, a preoccupation with God, which may not be strictly how God or good religion plans or expects life to be best lived and served.

It is 'atheist', Lark. The opposite of 'theist'. Can you try to (re)present at least the term correctly?

 

[Fluffywolf]

See Fluffy, ^ is interesting.

I should read more on it. Perhaps watch a short (max minutes) documentary on it.

It's a western philosophy. As with all western philosophies I wouldn't be surprised if it has much to do with wisdom (understanding) than practice.

Stoicism seems to be a good exception.

Luckily I am not required to interest you. Nor am I in any way inclined to change my beliefs in order to interest people. That line of thinking is reserved for the hipocrits amongst us.