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Is it odd for an Atheist to perform religious rituals?
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RE: Is it odd for an Atheist to perform religious rituals?
(July 10, 2014 at 4:24 am)Confused Ape Wrote:
(July 10, 2014 at 1:38 am)Rabb Allah Wrote: As an Atheist(more specifically igtheist) I love doing religious things. I am perhaps one of the few atheists(in the world) who worships a god of some sort. It is not that I secretly believe in a god(I don't), it is just that I am very fond of religion and the things associated with it. I find deities as useful to our lives as any mythological or heroic figure. Essentially just practical hero worship. I sort of came to this conclusion when I was a Hindu and tried creating a god that was not bound by sabda and it proved fatal after years of attempting.
God does not exist apart from the very words I speak and this alone is all that is the existence of god.

There's nothing odd about this. I'm something of a Naturalist Pagan

Quote:While we find little evidence to support most of the metaphysical claims made for deities and magic, we find plenty of evidence for the capacity of Pagan myth, meditation, and ritual to affect psychology. That is why we find Pagan ways powerful. By shaping human minds, they motivate change through human hands.

Our style of practice is much like that of other kinds of Pagans. It may or may not be noticeably different, and we work happily alongside other kinds of Pagans. This is often aided by the fact that Pagans usually don’t believe in a literal Hell for those who don’t hold the “correct” belief.

I'm too lazy for rituals apart from a simple ceremony at the solstices.

I actually got into the Arabian Pagan(wathani) revival scene and loved it. Very materialistic I may add but it is a Semitic form of paganism so what else to expect. The Qur'an actually mentions it numerous times that the Arab pagans believed in no afterlife. "Nothing kills us but time" is the motto of the Mushrikun before Islam fucked everything up.
Rather funny though considering that a lot of paganism is very naturalistic by default. Just blatant assumptions and observations steeped in the mythical minds of ignorant people.
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RE: Is it odd for an Atheist to perform religious rituals? - by Rabb Allah - July 10, 2014 at 4:37 am

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