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

[teisjm]

Budhism

It's more like a personal aproach to life, no missionares, no medieval-like rules. No condemming people who doens'øt share their believes.

And as far as i know (but not 100% sure) they have no history of violent crusades, which they just choose to ignore.

And i would call budhism a relegion, they don't have the almighty omnipotent god figure, but they mave mysticism, they even have gods and demons (2 of the worlds in the big wheel thing)

 

[Seydaman]

cthulu!!!!

 

[RetiarySword]

Shangdi. Its an ancienct Chinese religion. They say that heaven is an entity that maintains a personal relationship with you and guides you through your life.

Personaly I prefere their philosiphy to their religion but this isn't about the philosiphy thread.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Pastafarianism. Any religion that involves dressing up as a pirate rather than not having a lie in on Sundays get's my vote.

 

[wewontdie11]

Buddhism, definitely. Slightly more believable than most other world religions.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

Norse Paganism.

 

[TheBluesader]

I'm not an athiest or an agnostic. Everyone uses those words wrong anyway. I'm an ectotheist. I don't care about the question, because I live my daily life beyond the need for an answer (which WE ALL DO, if you think about it, so you're one too! Yay! Plus, ectotheist reminds me of ectoplasm, which is from Ghostbusters, so that's cool.) Put simply, I feel about God how I feel about unicorns. Whether they ever existed or not, or still do, it doesn't help or hurt me. So is there God? = Meh.

My favorite religion is Catholicism. It says God actually became human in the course of recordable human history, and despite plenty of near-catastrophes straddling the center of the War Continent, its core has managed to maintain a worldwide structure of billions very similar to that founded some 1700 years ago for several thousand.

Yes, yes, I know, millions killed, rape of cultures, so on, so forth. But seriously - like we weren't going to find reasons to do that anyway. Symptomatic of the human mind, blah blah bleth. But you have to admit, the hats are pretty cool! [http://strix.org.uk/migrate/files/width400/Pope-Hat-Roundup.jpg]

Norse Paganism.

THAT TOO! Combined with Catholicism! In a religion I made up where Baldr is Christ! Crucifix with guy hanging on Thor's hammer, wrapped in mistletoe!

Of course, I'd probably worship Loki. He got a bum rap. He did all the work for everyone, and they just screwed him over. Poor, poor Loki...

 

[PersianLlama]

Pastafarianism. Can't deny the FSM, but other than that.

Buddhism, like everybody above said. Shintoism would be a second, or Neo-Confucianism, which is a mix of Buddhism/Confucianism, so it's more of a philosophy, I don't know if it's officially considered a religion.

Judaism also appeals to me a bit in comparison to the other Abrahamic religions because I've never had a Jew tell me: I'm going to hell, I'm a bastard for being atheist, nor have I ever had one annoy me for any reason because I'm an atheist. But that's one's really with the community.

 

[teh_gunslinger]

Ancient Greek religion. At least the gods were very anthropomorphic and full of flaws. It was all good fun. Also there were a lack of "Kill the unbelievers" dogma that is a staple of the 3 big ones these days. It wasn't so damn serious. Or at least in another way.
And much fun reading about Athena being born from the head of Zeus who ate his father or something like that.

I'm not an athiest or an agnostic. Everyone uses those words wrong anyway. I'm an ectotheist. I don't care about the question, because I live my daily life beyond the need for an answer (which WE ALL DO, if you think about it, so you're one too! Yay! Plus, ectotheist reminds me of ectoplasm, which is from Ghostbusters, so that's cool.) Put simply, I feel about God how I feel about unicorns. Whether they ever existed or not, or still do, it doesn't help or hurt me. So is there God? = Meh.

My favorite religion is Catholicism. It says God actually became human in the course of recordable human history, and despite plenty of near-catastrophes straddling the center of the War Continent, its core has managed to maintain a worldwide structure of billions very similar to that founded some 1700 years ago for several thousand.

Yes, yes, I know, millions killed, rape of cultures, so on, so forth. But seriously - like we weren't going to find reasons to do that anyway. Symptomatic of the human mind, blah blah bleth. But you have to admit, the hats are pretty cool! [http://strix.org.uk/migrate/files/width400/Pope-Hat-Roundup.jpg]

Norse Paganism.

THAT TOO! Combined with Catholicism! In a religion I made up where Baldr is Christ! Crucifix with guy hanging on Thor's hammer, wrapped in mistletoe!

Of course, I'd probably worship Loki. He got a bum rap. He did all the work for everyone, and they just screwed him over. Poor, poor Loki...

The Baldr thing is actually not unheard of. There is a lot of things that has gotten mixed up in that whole mess with Snurri and the Edda. Also the Icelandish sagas has many things in common with hagiography.

 

[pixelbob]

all hail Ra the sun god

 

[JHaakma]

There is of course LaVeyan Satanism, which is an athiestic religion based around the preservation of self, and treating one's selve AS God. There's a few philisophical fallacies in it, but otherwise it's quite a reasonable position. All you have to do is ignore the hypocricy of showing your non-conformity by assigning yourself to a religion.

 

[Haiman]

I like dead ones. Myths of Ancient Greece and Egypt are cool and no one is going to try and flame you if you take them for what they are - fairytales

 

[Shapsters]

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.

 

[bodyklok]

Flying Spaghetti Monster, worship his noodly appendages!

 

[llewgriff]

Buddism I guess, though It's more of an idea.

 

[GothmogII]

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

Aren't Buddhists atheists?

Depends. You can still follow the main beliefs without actually following some of the more..fringe elements. Sorry, I mean rather, you'd discount the supernatural stuff, that's for example basically what Christian Atheism is at least.

However, interesting little note is that, most of the big religions all have some from of the same moral code, or 'Golden Rule', from Christianity to Buddhism to Confucianism to Islam, that says basically, do unto others as you would have done unto you, that everyone has a right to be treated justly and fairly etc.

So really, if you're only focusing on the teachings of a religion for it's moral and philosophical aspects, you can still be -technically- atheist.

For those who don't follow any religion in any sense, non-religious really does work better as a descriptor.


As for myself, I actually like pretty much all religions. So steeped in ancient traditions, stories, fables, artwork and iconography. However, I treat them as just that, stories and myths that can offer us insight into humanity. When I think of Thor riding through the skies in his goat driven chariot, or God smiting the land, or Ganesh having his head replaced with an elephants, I understand them only as works of fantasy. And well I don't discount the lessons within these stories, at the same time I never expect any of it to have taken place, much less in the ways they have been described.

 

[ygetoff]

My favorite religions are probably Pastafarianism (to create a whole religion to get a message across is just awesome), Buddhism (the whole idea of being nice to each other and not burning the unbelievers is great), and Paganism of any sort (all hail the horse god!).

 

[Matronadena]

I want to say Buddhism, but I dislike this aura of pompousness that seems to come from the idea of Nirvana.

that's more of a new agey spin on it, most of the legit ones in the east may have different views on what enlightenment means... but nearly all branches the main point is to loose the self.. Only real arrogance I see comes from the westerners who claim to be masters and want you to cough up thousands of dollars on cruises for talks, and book signings , or buddhist influenced new-agy shops