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« on: February 08, 2021, 01:50:54 PM »

Here is my attempt, which is probably very underwhelming since I deliberately keep myself ignorant on the area of religion. To quote 1984: "Ignorance is strength" Tongue

Religion: None
Denomination: None

Why do you follow this religion (or lack thereof)?: I grew up in essencially a "CINO" family (Catholic in name only). My parents didn't even bother baptizing me and they also never went to church (very recently, my mum started going to church again for a while, but even she doesn't go all that often). Being completely irreligious has always been a part of my upbringing and I've never felt I was "incomplete" or "unfulfilled" in any sense where becoming more devout would help.

God:
If asked directly "Do you believe in God" my answer would probably be yes, but not because I actually believe in God, but rather because of a Pascal's wager kind of deal

In reality, God's existance is not important in my day to day life so I just refuse to answer the cuestion. There are some questions which are best left unanswered. Just don't think about it. The rest of the questions therefore are not applicable.

Afterlife:
I do not know and there is no way for me to know. My hope, based on nothing but wishful thinking is that if an afterlife does exist; the just and good people are elevated while the wicked are punished and left to repair the damage they've created somehow.

However this is purely wishful thinking unsubstantiated on anything; and if anything whatever few empirical evidence I can gather while here on Earth would lean towards the opposite (for example I definitely don't believe in something like karma; plenty of people get away with evil stuff all the time)

Prayer:
I never pray. Closest thing is me thinking to myself "Damn, I wish X thing happened", which probably does not count.

Worship:
I often go to churches and cathedrals while I am doing tourism, but that is not in order to worship but rather because churches are in themselves highlights of many European cities (in fact I deliberately avoid going during mass or other worship ceremonies).

I think I went to Mass like 2 times as a kid and found it boring.

Ghosts, spirits, angels, and demons: All evidence points towards these not being a thing. I have seen like ghosts once or twice as a kid, but I think that was just little me being scared of darkness so it does not count Tongue

One True Path: I do think that in an ideal world, people would adopt a position towards religion like mine and outright stop caring. "Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers".

However, this does not mean that I don't recognize many religious teachings as valid. For example there are some Bible quotes I genuinely think are good teachings, and if I am not mistaken islam teaches to care the poor (which by itself is a good teaching I suppose even when I think out of all major religions, Islam is probably the worst). However while religions probably have some good teachings, you should never fully buy the package, especially not as immutable "Word of God".

Spiritual objects: There are no spiritual objects or anything like that on Earth.

Religious law: I don't follow any religious law. Just follow the morality standards and laws of whichever society you find yourself to be in and you are good to go. And if there are some morality standards you don't like you can always try to get people to frown upon immoral stuff or to support stuff that you think is morally ok but many people disagree.

Spreading the word: Active Dule style atheism if anything probably creates a backlash so it should not be done. The appropiate way for my lack of religion to spread would be that religious grandparents raise up parents that are "religious in name only"; which in turn end up raising completely irreligious grandchildren.

I am in favour of stuff like say, laicité laws like there are in France, but more as a means to force parents to raise their kids secular than anything else. And yes, the laicité laws probably create a backlash too; there is a careful balancing act.

My take is that whatever Europe did in the late 20th century should be done everywhere. Or you can go full communist and declare "Religion is the opiate of the masses"; then purge it like the Soviets or China did, your choice Tongue
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