I know you don't believe but say you were part of it for the festivities or morals etc? Please elaborate.
or at minimum is there a Religion you at least respect and for what reasons?
Just curious. Not trying to get you to accept G-d or anything. Just curious what people observed.
2007-11-27 02:54:55 · 27 answers · asked by tekheletorah 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
At least you guys answered me. When I asked the faithful they said the obvious. See my other question. The make me crazy. It was just a question. Well thanks for the answers and continued answers. I would thumbs up all of you but I am only level 1
2007-11-27 03:01:43 · update #1
I'd try setting up my own religion.
With me as a messiah, of course.
2007-11-27 03:08:43 · answer #1 · answered by Darth Cheney 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
-Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
Since it's considered by some to be a non-theistic religion (but is more realistically a philosophy) I'd agree with many of the other posters here who said "Buddhism". However, A large percentage of modern European and American atheists adhere to a different philosophy which is Humanism and as such could be considered a religion as it subscribes to certain beliefs about humanity and nature and is a philosophical guide. As is true with most atheists tho we are independent in our thoughts and the majority of us don't feel a need to belong to an organization in order to feel comforted in belonging to something. Some atheists belong to a "Church of Free Thought" which are starting to crop up in some locations to give some atheists a place to belong with like-minded people.
2007-11-28 00:07:36 · answer #2 · answered by RaisedByWolves 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I respect both Buddhism and Taoism in their philosophical teachings stripped of the metaphysical/supernatural beliefs. I also like things about Paganism and their observance of the interconnectedness of life and cycles of nature. I do observe some of their holidays in a natural way, like solstices and equinoxes. I consider myself a scientific pantheist.
I probably least respect Islam because of their lack of respect for human rights and individualism which are things I value. I do respect their rights to follow their beliefs voluntarily as individuals but not when they impose them on others who don't wish to follow their beliefs. Like women being forced to wear the hajib or marry their cousins or honor killings, etc... I also dislike the more radical side of Christianity which can take on the appearance of the fundamentalist Islamic sects when they think they should be able to legislate their beliefs on others.
2007-11-27 11:06:29 · answer #3 · answered by Zen Pirate 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because I'm a native New Yorker- which makes me part Jewish by birth anyway - I would would choose to be Jewish. I would just feel more comfortable in a religion that is that humane and more intellectual than many other religions are.
2007-11-27 11:24:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's not necessarily religion that I have a problem with, it's the people in it.
Pagan or Wiccan. Jesus, Gandhi, Buddha, Mother Theresa are great spiritual leaders.
We just need to be quick to see where religion is right, sometimes. Their messages of hope, compassion and "do unto others" is without parallel.
But the terroristic tactics BOTHER me. I wish they would knock if off, especially the terrorizing of little children. "God is watching you and if you screw up he'll send you straight to HELL. But he LOVES you." WTF.
Peace.
2007-11-27 11:05:42 · answer #5 · answered by -Tequila17 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I would think they would say Evolutionist which is a religion because they believe in something that they have not seen they were just taught it through science. Scientist did not see the beginning they are just going by what they thought could have happened but there are way to many possibilities if you really think about it in a science way. Being an atheist is a religion in itself.
2007-11-27 11:08:23 · answer #6 · answered by ON FIRE 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Probably Unitarian Universalist.
2007-11-27 14:17:56 · answer #7 · answered by Byron A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You and this is the honest truth I would choose Buddhism, have you read any of the writings? His teachings make a ton of sense on the same level as Jesus and you don't have all this dogma. And nowhere does Buddha instruct people to kill in my name or that my ideas are the ultimate in reality.
2007-11-27 10:59:27 · answer #8 · answered by TSIRHC 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
buddhism. i just started reading a book about it and I'm going to take some of it and implement it into my life. don't know if I could ever be a buddhist or any other religion for that matter, but I think all religions can teach us something.
2007-11-27 11:06:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Buddhism's tenets, when stripped down, resemble the average American atheist's beliefs pretty closely.
If it had to be one of the monos, I'd go with Judaism by a country mile over its younger siblings.
2007-11-27 11:05:32 · answer #10 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋