What sort of spiritual practices, rituals and searching do you atheists answerers do/have in your life?

Question

please answer if you are an atheist.....

My definition of spirituality: Leaving oneself open to the unknown, to accept what cannot be explained, and attempting peace by meditation. A kind of openness, and unscientific area, exploring intuition and change.I am agnostic, leaning towards atheist. Do you all know the term apatheist, cause that is not what I am talking about...

Answer 1

I am a spiritual atheist. I have the following practices:

* Personal altar where I self-pray or meditate to focus on an issue or to help absolve a problem I have.

* A few books of quotations that I read occasionally for inspiration.

* Dancing to my music---that is one of my other ways of gaining spiritual inspiration, to just "let go". Some of my internal answers are found via dancing. :-)

* Internet searches for religious answers to my queries, if any.

* Being an artist (writing, drawing, painting). I consider this a spiritual aspect of my life.

Answer 2

my own bible....

"I do not drive too fast, even if i don't agree with the rules. I give too much change back to the girl behind the counter in the supermarket. When i find a wallet on the street, i return it to the owner without expecting a reward ,because the relief on your face is worth more to me than money. In a bar i'll talk to you, when you are standing alone. I will never jugde or disrespect you on your looks, not even on your charactre.

And i do that without any God telling me to do that

I give to charity, i seperate my garbage for a better environment. I rather put on an extra sweater, than to put up the heater. I never throw my chewing-gum on the street. Every week i buy the paper from a homeless person. I will help and support you if you're attacked by drunken guys on the street, i'll avoid the fight, but i'll never leave you alone. I help the old lady cross the street, i'll bring the crying lost little girl back to her mother.

And i do that without any God telling me to do that

I know no rules, except my own thoughts. After thinking everything through, i have to conclude that there must be 'something' to make this all happen. I've looked around and inspite of all the misery, the poorness, the crime, the hate, i don't see humans as sinners, but as people with choices. I don't think that i will be lost if i do not meditate on a mountain or pray under a cross. I don't even believe that the guy who blows himself up between a group of schoolkids will burn eternally.

And i think that without any God telling me to think that

Every person has something good inside. Sometimes on the surface, sometimes deep hidden inside. I hope that the God they all talk about, is not the guy with the beard sitting on a cloud. The God i have faith in, is just a metaphore. A feeling. A sence of all the goodness inside the people. Nothing more than that. And more clear: nothing less than that. The goodness in our heart is the most important thing we have. My God has an extra 'O'...Good.

And i am good, without any God telling me that

Good has no need for symbols. No cross, no boring books, no big fat guy, no cow, no buildings with colored glass windows. Good is everywhere and is eternal. There is no need to pray for something good, because it will always be there. There is also no need to pray to end something bad, because the bad will also always be there. Sure there are bad people. These people are to dumb to understand the good. Goodness, kindness can relieve you. Badness only creates more badness. We can never beat the badness. A bad guy with a gun can only be beaten by a good guy with a gun. But a good guy doesn't use a gun.

And even if the Good will always loose, I'll always try to be Good.

Everything has its time, and its place. In our sadness, in our anger, in our happyness, in our love we can see our humanity. These things make us to be the people we are, they shape us, they teach us, they make us really feel. And in every deep misery, there is always a hidden hope, cause we all know anything can always be done differently. This earth is our playground, to feel, to laugh, to cry, to love and to live.

And i live. And that's good."

Answer 3

I'm an agnostic; am I allowed to answer?

If so...I don't have any "spiritual practices" or "rituals," per se, but I do a lot of thinking. I wish a few more people did a little more of that; there seems to be so little of it going on in this world...

Answer 4

Atheists do not practice rituals or spitiritual practices. They deny the existence of any supernatural force including the gods.

Followings are some good sites for you to understand who is an atheist.

Answer 5

As a hard-line atheist I do not have any spiritual practices or rituals.

However, I learned a lot about morality from comic books when I was younger and have been collecting for about twenty-years. Every Wednesday I go to the comic shop for my weekly allotment of books. This is about as close as I come to having a church.

Answer 6

Spiritual practices = bottle of Jack Daniels, ritualistic drink once a week just to honor the spirit of the distillery

Atheism is not a religion or cult, so asking this question is similar to asking what do people who don't believe in martians do on Saturday afternoon.

Answer 7

I am not an atheist, but any ____________ knows atheism is not a religion. There are no spiritual practices or rituals because to them there is nothing to be spiritual about. The only thing that is important is to have the best life you can, because its the only one.

Answer 8

No spiritual practices of any kind. No ritual observances. The only searching I do is in bookstores.

Answer 9

just the truth as I see it. Wherever that may lie.
(Although technically, I'm not Atheist, just a disbeliever of one, all-powerful, immortal creator.)

Answer 10

Any kind of ritual is pagan and not spiritual.

This I believe; http://homelessheart.com/testimony.htm