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?

edit: I like religious music, religious temples (Churches, Gurudwara’s, Temples & Mosques in Iran), religious paintings and art sometimes. I know for a fact that the only art you could produce is those days was indeed religious and the greatest artists needed to make something religious to be funded, that we will never know what those artists would have produced in the absence of religion, but yeah, religious art is good nonetheless.

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    After reading Flatland and playing The Forgotten City, I feel like any number of human religions could end up being “true” to some degree. But it would involve aliens, or interdimensional interlopers or something.

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      “After reading Narnia I feel like any closet could contain a world with magic and monsters and curious creatures.”

      You might think yourself an atheist but you’re certainly not a sceptic.

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        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.

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          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.

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              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.