I am Ganesh, an Indian atheist and I don’t eat beef. It’s not like that I have a religious reason to do that, but after all those years seeing cows as peaceful animals and playing and growing up with them in a village, I doubt if I ever will be able to eat beef. I wasn’t raised very religious, I didn’t go to temple everyday and read Gita every evening unlike most muslims who are somewhat serious about their religion, my family has this watered down religion (which has it’s advantages).

But yeah, not eating beef is a moral issue I deal with. I mean, I don’t care that I don’t eat beef, but the fact that I eat pork and chicken but not beef seems to me to be weird. So, is there any religious practice that you guys follow to this day?

  • beteljuice@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Anyone who calls themselves “atheist” is certainly not a skeptic. With the insanity presented to us in this boundless reality, how can anyone say for certain what does and does not exist? Agnosticism seems the more skeptical stance.

        • IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          It’s a legitimate question. To say "I don’t know’ is to either accept that at least one of the gods is potentially real and probably more of them. To say ‘you don’t know’ is to be certain that at least one of the gods is real and magic exists.

          I find neither position defensible.

    • Comment105@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Reality is absolutely not boundless. Learn a little bit about engineering and you’ll find out how very bounded it is.

      And there’s no reason to expect physics to be randomly different in a different distant galaxy.

      Is physics wonky at the quantum level? Apparently. Does that mean Vishnu might exist? No.