Was religion a bit part of hippies' beliefs? Did they all believe in god?...?

Question

... Or did they think it was another reason to make war or in any way against it?

Answer 1

Yeah, man! It was the Experimental Age...

It was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, astrology, and all that jazz. It was back to Mother Nature. Flower Power. Peace and Love. Make Love Not War. The drug scene... free love. The Beatles! The Rolling Stones! ...and even Charles Manson!

It was the generation that stopped the Vietnam War and some college kids got killed for protesting against it. Many jumped the Canadian borders to skip the military draft, others rallied to burn their draft cards.

John Lennon got the brunt of it when he was misquoted for saying 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus!" and America hated them and burned their records in effigy. He apologized.

But a decade or so later, he made his own statement when he wrote "Imagine"...Imagine no religion...

Peace be with you!

Answer 2

During the Hippie era it was a common thread in many beliefs that organized religion was an evil of it's own. That may have been initiated by common political ideologies of the same time that most large organizations (like banks) were inherently evil -much of that was deserved, but over stated. This ideal was widely discussed by the SDS, an underground political group that advocated bombing those institutions they believed were wrong as a way to correct societies evils.

Hippies were almost the complete opposite of the SDS. They believed love was the answer to everything, having "love-ins" where experimental drugs, sex, and ideas were endlessly discussed. Both were over-simplified, and ineffective as true tools of change. But hippies used drugs, believing them capable of expanding their consciousness, and thus their abilities and ideas. Alas, you can still find some pockets of belief in this erroneous idea, probably promoted by the drug dealers.

Religion was a much discussed subject among hippies. Many, of course, did believe in the traditional concepts of the religion they were brought up with. Those were probably the tiniest percentage, though. Experimental philosophies were the cry of the day.

War was one thing the Hippies, and their supporters, believed fervently, was that war was wrong. They started the political movement that ended the Vietnam war, proving that even a small movement, or an individual, can change a nation.

Answer 3

Hippies held many different beliefs including the beginnings of what is now called the New Age Movement. Understand that the lifestyle of the hippies (listening to music and drinking and drugs and free sex) was more important to most of them, than was getting heavy into religion. I believe that a fair number of them were atheists while another good part of them were basically agnostic. Their stand against the war could come from both a theistic and atheistic position, so that would not explain their belief system. Also remember that some of them were communist in belief and so they reject belief in god.

Answer 4

"consistent with risk a real Atheist does no longer experience the could consistently share their ideals with regard to the non-life of God. If something does not exist on your guy or woman strategies, then why could you're making one among those huge deal approximately it (combatively so). that's what i could desire to understand." i could desire to make a element there. in my opinion, i do no longer pass around 'professing the non-existance of God'. it rather is a waste of time, in my e book. yet whilst, what, ninety something p.c. of people contained in u.s. have some form of diety, that's impossible to easily forget approximately approximately it. detect a rustic that is composed of greater often than not atheists, including Sweden, and atheism isn't a great deal in any respect. that's greater often than not an ecosystem difficulty, including the place you reside and who you reside with.

Answer 5

They were beliveing in old religion of Druids in Europe, they were believers One God before christianity. Stone henges were there worshipping places.

Answer 6

You seem a little obsessed with hippies.

Read up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie

I doubt they would all believe in god. Like most diverse groups, I would expect they hold a plethora of varying beliefs.

Answer 7

I don't think they cared that much.

I'm sure some did, weren't sure, and didn't--just like today.