ok. you refuse to belive inany dieties, god, goddess,satan, jesus whatever. but do atheists still do things(or can) like witchcraft or meditation or opening the chakras? new age stuffs ect. like practices that dont go to any specific diety but things of the self?
2007-07-13 15:55:59 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no, we're just normal people...well...most of us.
2007-07-13 15:58:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Not all. Atheists only disbelieve in Supreme Creature / Creatures, but it has no effect on other beliefs.
By the way, meditation is to calm the mind nothing to do with greater being. For tapping into chakras, it is to peer into your own potential of the 7 chakras. What has it got to do with god? For Witchcraft, you still have to "borrow" power from unknown greater being, therefore to do witchcraft, you have to believe in some god or goddess first.
2007-07-13 16:03:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't be against meditation, but I don't practice it. I don't believe in witchcraft and am not familiar with opening chakras. I'm not up on new age stuffs, either. I just don't find that stuff interesting. I do like to contemplate my inner self and work on improving my outlook on life and on making myself a better person.
atheist (THINK)
2007-07-13 16:18:09 · answer #3 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not an atheist, but an agnostic. I totally believe in witchcraft, meditation, ghosts, etc 100%. I don't think those things have anything to do with any creator...I think there are many things about out world/universe that we don't understand yet. Like I believe witchcraft is not anything "supernatural", but that your essentially using nature to bend her own rules. ...if that made any sense whatsoever.
2007-07-13 16:10:07 · answer #4 · answered by ♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why on earth can't an atheist do things? I've always defined atheism as not believing in any established religions or Gods. That leaves the door wide open for just about anything you want to believe in on a personal level.
For instance, my guardian is a dragon. I created him in the image of what I most desire in a living being. To you he means nothing, but that's not what's important. He is everything to me because I created him and he is unique to me alone.
Anytime you believe in something you give it some semblance of existence. I know dragons don't exist in the world, but he exists inside me and that's what gives me strength when I need it.
2007-07-13 16:13:17 · answer #5 · answered by Faerlyte 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some. Atheism is just the lack of belief in any gods. So if you believe in chakras or witchcraft but not in any gods you are still an atheist. Most people who describe themselves as atheists or agnostics don't go in for anything supernatural. Thus your average atheist might meditate for the calming physical and psychological effects, but isn't going to do this for any "spiritual" reasons.
Still, your most new-age crystal gazing, spirit guided, pyramid hatted individual is still an atheist if he or she doesn't believe in any gods.
2007-07-13 16:03:15 · answer #6 · answered by thatguyjoe 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, you can be atheist and spiritual. Buddhists are athesist, not believing in gods. Witchcraft, as opposed to Wicca, is merely an arcane science, and requires no belief in deity. Buddhists meditate and understand energy, so I suppose that the answer is "yes", atheists can be spiritual.
2007-07-13 16:01:46 · answer #7 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I suppose some might do meditation. Witchcraft? Are you referring to the Wiccan religion, which believes in some form of metaphysics. Then NO!
I don't do any of those things, and don't see any profit in them.
2007-07-13 16:03:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything that would involve the believe of any higher power would make them agnostic. Although rituals or acts like meditation could be done by an atheist.
2007-07-13 16:03:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I'm an avid meditation proponent and a student of several martial arts styles.
2007-07-13 15:59:05 · answer #10 · answered by Starvin' Marvin 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No. We just belive that we contold our own lives fully. And only us and other people can change that, not an overlying force above all of us. Since we belive in no afterlife, we live our lives to the fullest.
2007-07-13 15:59:13 · answer #11 · answered by zyfoxmaster 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋