I think it would help if people divorced the concept of thinking there is a god or divinity of some kind (pretty much default opinion across mankind) from that of following an actual creed where they are held to its standards by their peers.
Sometimes you do though. I think it's definitely not for everyone as most people aren't as thoughtful about their own beliefs, but if you are it's perfectly reasonable. I've been undergoing a sort of growth period where I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm more abnormal than just being a weirdo freak autist and I think this is one of the areas where I'm built different. I tend to resist that idea because it sounds so arrogant.
If your values are that strong I think you have no need of religion to begin with. At that point you've established who you are and what you believe in.
I think there's a problem with the personification of deities that fucks people up. Gods are essentially anthropomorphized ideals, so when a lot of people dedicate themselves to Jesus Christ they're dedicating themselves the way they might to a living emperor or king rather than the higher ideal he is meant to represent. When you dedicate yourself to a person you have this tendency to bend and sway with the wind in order to justify and defend that person's honor the way a loyal retainer might. In this way, their faith is so strong that it makes their morals weak. But when you dedicate yourself to an ideal... it's an ideal, your concern isn't with justifying it by proclaiming its greatness and bowing and scraping to it, your concern is with living up to it the best that you believe you can.
I think if you need religion to dictate right and wrong to you, and you can't just look at reality as it is and determine what is right and what isn't, you are an NPC.
That's like saying Commies are atheists.
Actually it is shamefur dispray you normgroid.
Sorry, I dont speak Engrish.
Yes, and he's also a jeet shartyfag that posts hindutava rhetoric. Disregard him accordingly.
Because it is worship.
Um ackshully, sweaty, I was making an assertion not an argument.
The atheist equivalent would be the weird leftoids who always criticise Christianity but never any other religion, especially Islam.
>doesn't say which ones
I'd argue that it's because most of those people live in the West where Christianity is and has been kind of a big deal, so there's more exposure to it. If the USA since its inception had somehow been an Islamic country and Islam had undergone a more moderate reformation not unlike Christianity has I imagine you'd see the exact same thing. Also many of those people are leftists who buy into the progressive stack bullshit and western culture is evil yadda yadda.
That is also a religion and the same people behind the Knights Templar are behind it.
You can't literally believe in nothing so there's that. If you don't worship god then you still need to have something like anime, comic books, movies etc to latch onto as a guide. So at the end there will be people who claim that there is no god and then they flip back and fall into the same scam by worshiping things like Hitler or transexuals.
You're a weird nigger, friend.
Learning a great deal of historical allegations towards Roman Catholic were Protestant allegations and representations because for centuries that was serious business. And these ideas have continued into general misconception - examples I have posted about in another thread is the Spanish Inquisition which has the reputation of inventors of the most creative ways to torture and kill people, but when look at the historical documents (of which there are thousands of kept in good condition), was far overblown in how violent they were (conveniently a lot of the allegations towards them were ones done by secular courts or those far away from the Latin central base - half suspicion, let’s torture then kill them when they confess on a hunch).
This is gay and retarded and was made by a gay retard. "I am mildly perturbed by your depiction of my le heccin wholesomerino divine epic chungus totally-not-deities so ermm you're LITERALLY the evil thing my ancient desert book warned me about!!!"
