Re:Siddhartha
by sightbroke on Thursday February 20, 2025 @08:38AM
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While non-religious and religious are reasonably disjointed sets, atheism is not disjoint with religious. That is the set containing the union of atheist with religious is not the null set.
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Re:Siddhartha
by joshuaissac on Thursday February 20, 2025 @08:45AM
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That's right. There are religions without any gods, so they are atheistic, but they still have other religious beliefs.
And there are many people that continue to be religious even after becoming atheists. "The little book of atheist spirituality" from André Comte-Sponville, touches on this subject, and many others. I'm would also call myself an atheist-catholic.
I remember a joke in the book where two rabbis are discussing the issue of god's existence during the supper, at the end, they both agree that god must not exist and then go to sleep. At the next day one rabbi finds the other doing his early prayers and confounded asks him why he is praying if there is no god, to which the other one answers "what does praying has to do with god?".
I like the one that goes "why did god create the universe? because he didn't have a choice".
Re:Siddhartha
by ninetyninenine on Thursday February 20, 2025 @10:49AM
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Right. I actually meant what you said. What I said is a mistake.