There's plenty of secular (atheist) religions. So 'atheist' doesn't tell us much about you. Though, there's many who subscribe to a secular religion and don't have the conscious awareness to articulate it.
That said, even though it's an evil god, my religion is Googlism. I pray to Google every day and Google answers my prayers. And by uploading my thoughts and opinions to the internet, I will forever live on in Google's cache, the Google afterlife.
Ex-muslim atheist. Muslim for first 20 years until I stopped believing.
Stupid thing is, being ex-muslim, you don't really fit into the normal checkboxes. I am not a muslim anymore but I hold some muslim background and have muslim families and friends. I hold secular atheist values but I did not grow up as an atheist like most irreligious people.
Often time, getting hate from both sides online sucks.
my beliefs are those : I believe what seems the most plausible to me given the data I've been able to get
what seems the most plausible to me :
we are eternal immaterial beings, we will be something after this life and we were something before it
we chose to be here
Earth is full of madness and suffering on purpose and we chose to be here for it is the best way for us to evolve and grow up as a person
after the death the suffering won't matter anymore it will mean nothing to us all that will matter is the data we will have collected in our lives and how much character development we will have been through
mainstream religions are a way to contain human madness and prevent mankind from annihilating itself, they are nothing but a structure that have been placed here by probably aliens to canalize humans' natural agressivity
As in grew up in an environment where homosexuals and jews were actively portrayed as evil and will bring the destruction of the world. Was told to believe this. Believed this in early childhood.
Reached teenage years and doubt the validity of these claims. Had two voices in my head, one telling me these are just people like you and me, the other said to believe what my religious teachers taught me.
Reached 20s finally dropped religion, spent a couple of years to re-evaluate my value system.
So I didn't have a secular childhood. I had to learn it later in life. Same with sexuality.
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