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Living without religion
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What is it to live without religion?
You mean live without accepting something without evidence? Or not joining a religious institution?
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I think your later idea is the correct one. There are lots of people who accept alien abductions as real even though they are not religious.
What is it like not stamp collecting?
It's like that. 
It's just fine!
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will fly to the stars.
Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud ..... after a while you realise that the pig likes it! RE: Living without religion
April 24, 2013 at 2:05 pm
(This post was last modified: April 24, 2013 at 2:05 pm by Dawud.)
So it's just the same as pretty much normal life...?
Either way?
Kudos given by (1): Dawud
No -- More normal.
No weird rituals, beliefs or getting up early to talk to invisible beings on Sunday/Saturday/whatever day.  Quote:What is it to live without religion? Free. Without some pompous ass claiming that he talks to god and tells you what "god" wants you to do.  (April 24, 2013 at 1:53 pm)Dawud Wrote: What is it to live without religion? I think I said this in one of the other threads, but it's not much different from when I was religious, except that I don't plan for anything religious (meetings, religious study, etc). Like Min said, it feels more free. One less thing to worry about, so to speak.
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-Stephen Jay Gould  (April 24, 2013 at 2:05 pm)Dawud Wrote: So it's just the same as pretty much normal life...? I have been inside a church precisely one time in my life, and that time was for a purely secular- charitable- reason. My life, aside from the religious observances, is exactly the same as my believer friends, our experiences aren't drastically altered by what side of the religious fence we stand on. But we're normal; I've also never met a fundamentalist, but I get the feeling that the more you lean on religion (or atheism, though I feel weird saying it like that) as an underpinning of who you are... well, I guess that might do something for you. I mean, if you're into god to the point that you're homeschooling your kids and praying for them rather than taking them to the doctor, that's way different from anything I've ever known. I can't imagine what kind of mind would be able to justify that, but then, I've never been a theist. I don't know what a religious experience feels like. So if you're normal... yeah, you'll be normal whether you're theist or atheist. 
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