To All Atheists: Which Religion Do You Like The Most?

[quiet_samurai]

Paganism by far is the least judgemental and self righteous.

I'm actually more of a Buddhist myself, although Buddhism is technically not a religion. it's a practice or art.

 

[CuddlyCombine]

Because agnostics tend to not understand that agnosticism doesn't answer the question of "Do you believe in a deity?" It answers "Can we know" rather than "Do you believe".

Belief based on faith is different than belief based on logic. Atheists are the latter, and theists are the former. They're not compatible in any way. Agnostics take the middle ground and acknowledge that, while both routes are valid, you can't know for sure.

If you believe there may be a god, you are theist.
If you believe that there is no god, you are an atheist.
If you don't know if there is or isn't a god, you are everyone on the damned planet.

That statement is true only if you generalize the whole world.

 

[Cliff_m85]

Because agnostics tend to not understand that agnosticism doesn't answer the question of "Do you believe in a deity?" It answers "Can we know" rather than "Do you believe".

Belief based on faith is different than belief based on logic. Atheists are the latter, and theists are the former. They're not compatible in any way. Agnostics take the middle ground and acknowledge that, while both routes are valid, you can't know for sure.

If you believe there may be a god, you are theist.
If you believe that there is no god, you are an atheist.
If you don't know if there is or isn't a god, you are everyone on the damned planet.

That statement is true only if you generalize the whole world.

We're not asking if you 'know'. We're asking what you believe. There is a huge difference.


Answering agnostically with "We can't know" is like me asking if you like country music and you answering with "The radio isn't on".

 

[LANCE420]

As an Atheist, I have to ask, are you surprised by the Buddhist response?
Also, not all of us hate religion, we just simply don't believe in god.

 

[Deef]

Norse inanimatology.
Don't look it up, I invented it.

AND PRAISE BE TO LEMOCH, GOD OF SOUR FRUITS, FOR HE SHALT COMETH FROM THE HEAVENS TO SMITE ALL YE WHO DARETH WORSHIP YON STRAWBERRON, GOD OF SUGARY FRUITS, AND HE SHALT END A ERA OF SIN AND VILLAINY.

 

[Whoolpurse]

They are all failing equally miserably much.

 

[A random person]

Buddhism is pretty cool, I guess.

Shintoism also has some cool looking things like those gates.

 

[bjj hero]

Does being an atheist mean that you can't be religious?

Aren't Buddhists atheists?

I imagine Buddhists would vote for Buddhist, as am I.

Id quite like the fundamentalist Christians with the earth is less than 10000 years old and fossils are a test of faith stuff... If they werent constantly trying inflict their beliefs on the rest of us, petitioning the government, pushid ID in schools, bombin abortion clinics etc.

It does take real effort to ignore evidence like that.

Ok, well what christians say that dinsaurs didn't exist? And I hope you don't mean literal bombing of abortion clinics, although I'm am completely opposed to it myself. And can you really say that you agree with everything your government says? Some things are petitioned for the best.

ehh...I'm pretty sure that the bible makes some referrences to dinosaurs, I'm not feeling like looking it up now though. I'm not sure what christians you hang around with, that "inflict" their beliefs on you, but Most of my christian friends never force it on me, and are unerstanding. I respect them for sharing their beliefs though, and when you think about it, if you thought your beliefs were the only way to heaven, than you would have to hate someone pretty badly to not want to share it with them.

You'll see I was referring to fundamentalist Christians. The ones who believe that the whole bible is a historical document with each line being fact, no metaphor to be seen. They are out there, believing fossils carbon date more than 10,000 years old (older than the earth according to the old testaments literal interpretation) as a test from god. Thats a pretty shitty god who'll try to trick you into not believing in him so he can send you to hell.

Im well aware that there are moderate Christians out there. they were not the people I was talking about. There are Extremist Christians who have attacked abortion clinics and staff in America. Do a quick search or if you're too lazy try here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence].

I have no bother with Christians as individuals. Im not trying to convert anyone to atheism, I just want the same respect in return. It does bother me when they lobby the government based on what some book says. Example gays getting married. Does it really affect you whether someone else can get married? Gays have the same right to be miserable as the rest of us. Or when the pope says that promoting contraception in Africa is dangerous. Hes really not helping.

 

[Padefe]

FSM - The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Reason: Beer volcano and a Stripper factory in heaven + you know, the god is a fucking pile of spaghetti.

 

[Hot'n'steamy]

I like any religion that doesn't pander its beliefs to others. Atheists have the same problem though (I am a silent atheist).

Entirely true. I believe that evangelicalism of any religious belief or system of belief is unjustifiable as it jeopardises happiness and contentment. Glad to see that there are some other silent atheists out there. Btw I hate Richard Dawkins.

 

[Limos]

I'm okay with Buddhism, and I respect Deism as a position. Pretty much any non-evangelical or non-fundamentalist sect is mostly harmless.

 

[DuckDuckGoose]

The norse relidgion on coolness factors, they had all there gods being drunks and idiots that like tormenting people rather than all this "god moves in mysterios ways" crap.

On beliefs Bhuddism, the Bhuaddah isn't a god he's just an example to follow and they don't complain about dinosaurs, dinosaurs are cool why would anyone say they didn't exist? (rhetorical question)

 

[Arcticflame]

I don't mind Ancient Greek religion. Because it's not about perfection, it's not about people being shit or any of that.
It's just a bunch of different gods, some vain, some violent, some kind, having their god wars, and following whims.

It makes a lot more sense than a monotheistic god that is perfect, and having to explain many of the wrongs of the world.

 

[AtticusSP]

Daedra worship.

 

[Cheesebob]

Buddism.

A laid back religion where it is down to the believer which rules to follow?

A religion which doesn start wars and has no got?

Truly that is the best relgion going

 

[Manji187]

Theosophy (look it up on Wikipedia), which is more philosophy than religion.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

Norse gods ftw. You have Thor with his amazing hammer with the cool name-miolnir-, you have Odin who gave his own eye in exchange for knowledge and you have Loki who was abused by the other just bacause he did some bad but funny things. It also has Ragnarok which is just pwn and Jormundgand, the giant serpent that encircles midgar and the tree of life yggdrasil. I mean how is this not so cool we should all be worshipping them with human sacrifice and eveything. They demand it go and sacrifice to the hanged god (Odin) by hanging your friends and families. Its a sure fire way of getting into valhalla and its free. None of this give us all your money and you can get into heaven bs. The gods want blood not gold.

But seriously, religion is just a tool for oppressive brainwashing used to prevent the masses realising how pointless their existence is to stop them from rebelling or inciting revolution, depending on who is in charge. Nothing wrong with believing in god, but any form of organised religion is evil

 

[stompy]

Also there were a lack of "Kill the unbelievers" dogma that is a staple of the 3 big ones these days.

Do you mean Christianity, Judaism and Islam? Because, the way you said it ("big 3"), I though you were talking about number of followers, and I was under the impression that Hinduism was the 3rd largest religion. From what I know of Hinduism, the religion doesn't believe in conversions (it's got something along the lines of "many gods, one Truth" going on).

As for the question, as a Deist, if I had to conform to an organised religion, I'd probably take Hinduism. Probably because it's the religion I've grown up around, and since it's been a major influence in my mindset.

Edit:

Some sects of Buddhism worship Brahma as a god, and some think Buddha is a god.

Did you mean this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahma] guy? ... It's strange if you did, since no one worships Brahma.

 

[Matronadena]

Alot of folks give Buddhism a pass. Buddhist kingdoms until recently never made war on each other or experienced sectarian violence. But, I think if we were more exposed to Buddhist dogma, those who don't consider Buddism evil might reconsider.
Like ALL major religions Buddhism doesn't specifically condemn PEDERASTY...Monks are pressed into service around age 7!!
I'm with those who tolerate NO religion.
Say what you want about my soul...just stay AWAY from my kid.

Buddhism is again not a religion, it's a philosophy, and one that has no state, or real hierarchy beyond ones teachers, and their own experience ( save for Tibetan).. now where you have nations that are dominantly Buddhist, there is no Buddhist nations... SOME sects do have children living in the temples from very young ages as monks... most noted is the shao lin. however that was done by the parents at no demand of the temples...forcing anyone to do anything defies the most basic lessons of the noble truths.

but like all side there is a darker side...phonies and frauds who use things for power and wealth..however they tend to be very quickly discovered and dismantled, and it's more common in the west to see the fraudulent " Ameri-Roshi" abusing individuals in order to sell a book.

as far as Pederasty goes... it is very very very very highly frowned upon as it breaks alot of the precepts, true a love between two men, or two women is not a problem, but adult to child is viewed as something very negative, and ALWAYS has.

as for Buddhist " dogma" all one needs to do is look at the precepts, and the 12 noble truths.. that is them...or as close to dogma as one can get with a philosophy that requires one to be mindful, and find an answer in themselves rather than being told.


last person I actually heard any of those accusations was from an uncle of mine who went far far far extremist evangelical ( who even really brutally attacks other Christians too) and when asked for his source all he could say was a video is pastor showed...
you know like the jesus army camp style videos.

but then again, what would I know, I only received my jukai, studied in several temples, working on becoming a full blown monk once my kids are adults, and hold a PHD in anthropology.

 

[Ossum]

I don't care what religion you are as long as you don't go on and on about it or come to my house every week. Besides, where I live, your either non-religious, Christian, Mennonite and the occasional JW so I don't know any people of other religions.

In a place like that you probably have a lot of people hiding their real religion. There's plenty of that around here, too.