Atheists: Do you really feel that all religion is baseless? what if I produce one that isn't?

Question

Taoism - Based off the Tao Te Ching, written by Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu wrote this work after living in war-torn China as a guide for people to use to find peace in their lives. He wrote it based on the personal experiences he had endured during that violent era, and the lessons that those things had taught him on how to find peace.

This religion is BASED off something, not just randomly drawn from nowhere. There are some that think that Lao Tzu was actually several authors during that period writing under the same name, but the principle of finding peace through the chaos around them still applies.

Answer 1

Produce it, and we'll talk.

Oh, that's what you meant by not baseless. All religions are based on *something*. The question is whether or not they are based on something worth following.

Although there are concepts in Taoism that I agree with, there are others I don't ... and I can't see basing my life around something I don't wholly agree with.

Answer 2

I'm not saying that religions aren't meaningful to the people who practice it (and some who don't).

I'm awed by the Sistine Chapel, for instance. I like the music of Bach, though he was a Christian. I also enjoy the art produced by the Roman Catholic church, though I disagree with their doctrines. In addition, religion creates philosophical perspectives about the world and to compare the religions of different cultures is interesting. I just checked out a copy of the Quran this week, for instance.

But as an atheist, I don't believe that religions describe an accurate extrinsic reality (ex. gods) because all claim belief in the supernatural, but have no evidence to prove it. I also disagree with the concept of faith, and many of the social and cultural aspects of religion, which prey on human fears and prejudices.

It think it's fine if people draw meaning from whatever philosophy they choose, so long as it is no forced onto other people or used to stir up ignorance or hatred. All religion is based on a specific time or place. By baseless, I mean that religion attempts to use human emotions describe a reality without understanding the physical principles of that reality (hence: "god did it").

Answer 3

First of all, Everything is based on something. The BASE of most religions, however, is a book of some kind. All we want to know is why the authors of these books have not reappeared to claim their fame. Write a book and disappear into the night forever.

You know the book is there, you just can't really be certain where it came from.

Answer 4

It sounds like they shared their personal experiences. Every ones answer is different. Religion is falling by the wayside and that is why religion has become so violent. It is in it's death throes and it is fighting to stay alive. The Age of Pisces was a dark age, also a religious age, and it is all but over. The Age of Aquarius is bleeding in and it is light which is spiritual. Light is being shed on religion and spirituality on an individual basis. We are all waking up to the truth and reality. Like on the movie Labyrinth, When you are on the right path you get a lot of false alarms. We have alarms from every religion screaming at us. You don't listen to them. You listen to your changing heart and awareness. If what you seek you don't find within, you will never find without. Religion was necessary for its time, now we just need to look within.

Answer 5

Religions are not baseless in the sens that there is no basis, they are baseless in the sense that any such base is itself baseless.

That said, there are probably some religions out there that are really just philosophies, and that actually do have bases.

Answer 6

I'm a non-believer, and I certainly don't think religion is baseless. For one thing there are MANY types of religious. The most important thing is how decent a person you are period.

Answer 7

People need to stop confusing religion with God.

Religion is evil. Its caught up in tangled webs of dogma and closed-mindedness.

All religion is baseless, or rather its based on personal opinions rather than God.

Answer 8

I am not an atheist, but I do not believe in the Bible, I am curious about your choice of words, you said "what if produce one that .....". The word "produce" is what bothers me, do you mean to say you are going to "make up" a religion or show us the light on say being a "Mormon" or being "Jewish" etc.... Just curious.....

Answer 9

I believe all religion is based off of things we cannot confirm. Not without base...
Not without general purpose

Answer 10

If it is based on any kind of other-worldly supreme being; then, by definition, it is baseless.
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cheir --

Actually, there is no record of Jesus doing any of those things (and, in fact, there is no record of Jesus at all) from anyone who actually claims to have been there to see them.

There is no description of what Jesus might have looked like from anyone who would have been alive to see him at the time Jesus was supposed to have lived. There is not one word he might ever have spoken that was written down by anyone who could have been there. Similarly, no one recorded any of his alleged deeds. Even the supposed crucifixion is not mentioned by anyone who could have been there at the time.