As a fellow atheist, I understand the need- A place to have like minded people.
Hinduism has had many groups over thousands of years that are outrightly atheist- if anti-god is what you are seeking. Jainism and Buddhism are purely agnostic if just a philosophical lifestyle is what you are seeking. On Sun, 14 Jan, 2024, 2:04 pm Peter Griffin via Silklist, < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > Many years ago, when I worked with Forbes India, as part of an anniversary > special, we commissioned an essay by Alain de Botton on a ‘religion for > atheists’ (he has of course written and spoken about this extensively > elsewhere). > https://www.forbesindia.com/article/ideas-to-change-the-world/alain-de-botton-a-religion-for-atheists/13532/1 > > I just came across this. > https://theconversation.com/church-without-god-how-secular-congregations-fill-a-need-for-some-nonreligious-americans-215749 > > I resonate with the thought. After beginning my walk away from > Christianity in my teens and twenties, and all religion some time after, > there have been many times I missed some of the peripheral things about > religion. The sense of community, the places of contemplative silence, the > art, the music. > > What do you folk — believers or otherwise — think? > > ~ peter > -- > Silklist mailing list > Silklist@lists.digeratus.in > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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