Many will incorrectly answer "no" to this question, not realizing their system of values and beliefs and rituals has every hallmark of religion except the belief in a supernatural god.
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Re: Ask HN: Are You Religious?
#12After careful consideration of multiple compensation packages, culture, philosophy, open-mindedness, vacation & benefits packages, I went with atheism.
Great meal selection, no mandated daily/weekly/monthly meetings, no mandated training, super diverse culture, lack of shame, violence, and judgement for natural human behaviors. Best of all you can work as much or as little as you want.
No one has been sacrificed... At least not since Jerry reheated talapia in the break room microwave.
Shit christmas parties though.
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#13I was raised in a Christian fundamentalist church, one of the “everyone but us is doing Christianity wrong” variants which encouraged bible study. That study led me to examine their own beliefs critically and I am now an atheist.
Re: Ask HN: Are You Religious?
#14raised independent bible church/southern baptist, probably 80% fundamentalist.
Now I guess you could consider me a deist, since I think if we are going to define God as some kind of infinite extension of some aspect of humanity then God would have to be a hyper turing machine then in my estimation.
Seems like such a thing could not exist in this universe, but I do actually choose to, loosely, believe something along that line exists, but we couldn't actually interact with or understand an entity like that... on like a mathematical level we couldn't.
So I explicitly disbelieve in a personal god of any kind. There could be a demiurge but I see no reason why it would have moral authority or anything, maybe it could torture you endlessly I guess XD.
Re: Ask HN: Are You Religious?
#15Yes I am religious, I am Muslim :o,
But I take things from every other faith or movement and keep an open mind about things. Eastern asian cultures are very interesting to study right now.
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#16Yes I am religious, I am Muslim :o, But I take things from every other faith or movement and keep an open mind about things. Eastern asian cultures are very interesting to study right now.
I am also a Muslim currently interested in East Asian culture, religion, and politics at the moment :D
Do you have Discord? My tag is ss1515
Re: Ask HN: Are You Religious?
#17No
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#18No
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#19Many will incorrectly answer "no" to this question, not realizing their system of values and beliefs and rituals has every hallmark of religion except the belief in a supernatural god.
You're the one not realizing, it's that final belief that makes it a religion, that other shit you mention isn't religion, it's just world view and lifestyle neither of which are traits unique to religion. "How to live life" is not religion.
Re: Ask HN: Are You Religious?
#20No. Atheist.