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Godless Religions?

Luke Morningstar

Luke Morningstar

Mourning Stalker
Nihan said:
Do any of you out there know of any Godless "religions" or spiritual teachings other than Buddhism? Many thanks. Much Appreciated.
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Tantric (left-hand) Hinduism often takes the position that there are no gods, just stories that help us see the divinity within us.

Although that, along with things like shamanism, can get murky. If everything is a God, and there's nothing to do except figure out your own path, then is that the same as Godless? Technically, no. But practically, seems like it.

The secret is, you can take the philosophy of any religion and remove God. Christianity works just as well with Jesus as being an awesome guy, just trying to say we're all children of God. Islam can work as an active submission to the divine force within you, instead of a supreme being.

I think you'll find it fruitful to explore all religions and imagine what changes with a God and without one, without dismissing the validity of the text.
 
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milkjain8

New Member
i believe in god and i should every person believe in god. and You should then not waste the opportunity to try out the following test : ask the Hindu people you meet which are their favorite hindu gods and goddesses.

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Setepenaset

Setepenaset

Follower of Isis
Osho Sannyas (a.k.a. Rajneeshism) has no gods other than the divine inherent in all people and animals. But it's not really so much a religion as a philosophy of life, or as Osho himself put it, it's not a religion, it's a religiousness.
 
Breathe

Breathe

Hostis humani generis
Raelianism is a Godless religion.
Also a creationist religion. Think Ancient Aliens.
Also, this thread is seriously old.
 
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Jeff Strehlow

Member
justa_gurl said:
If by 'godless' you'd be referring to an individuals literal belief in the existence of god, then i'd have to say that it's possible for every popular religion to be godless. i know many Christians and Buddhists who live their lives for the message, virtue, grace and love they reflect, but at the same time feel that claiming knowledge of existence is completely unjustifiable. Most Christians and Buddhists wouldn't claim them thanks to dogma and semantics but in my opinion, they are closest to the truth of those faiths than any believer i've met.

I guess it's all in how you look at things. </*stands on her head ] :)
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I think this is a really good comment because there are Christians and Muslims who do not believe in God in the conventional sense. I see Christians saying "God" all the time without explaining what they mean by that word, as if to everyone that word means the same thing, but it doesn't. In the popular conception of God, God is an actual being. Some Christians definitely don't believe in that. They see God in a different way.
 
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Drew Easton

Drew Easton

Member
Yes, there are many, "Godless," religions. These religions are called non-theistic religions. These religions may or may not directly confirm nor deny the existence of all-powerful deities or beings.

One such example of a popular non-theistic religion would be Buddhism, which aims to help followers achieve enlightenment and reach Nirvana. There are many others.
 
Drew Easton

Drew Easton

Member
My religion, Pumpkinism, the religion of the Church of the Great Pumpkin Man, may be considered non-theistic since it is not required of a follower to truly believe in a deity as silly as a Great Pumpkin Man.

Our church is an interesting case, because it is both non-theistic and monotheistic at the same time.
 
Rick O'Shez

Rick O'Shez

Irishman bouncing off walls
John Martin said:
Some focus on the transcendent God and some focus on the inherent God and some focus on both.
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In the cult of Ice-Cream worship we aim to achieve unity with the Intrinsic Purity of Vanilla via the Tantric Triad of Neapolitan. Three becomes one, and then two becomes one, so to speak.
 
Conceivia

Conceivia

Working to save mankind
Is the reason you are seeking a "godless religion" that you do not believe in God? I would think about what you want to get from religion.

Seems to me that almost all religions offer some sort of selfish reward to the people. Eternal happiness of one form or another. If you do not believe in God, do you believe in some sort of eternal afterlife?

All of my beliefs work with or without God... well... except for the one about God sending someone to bring World Peace. Even that is sort of possible without God. It could be just human collective intelligence predicting the coming of such a person or something...

The one thing my belief does not offer, is that afterlife thing, so nothing for selfish reward for the people, to get them to believe in it. No reward based marketing. The only thing that can "sell" my religion, is truth and clarity.

So... basically, I would say that typically, if a whole bunch of people believe in something, it is almost always because there is some sort of marketing trick involved. Lots of people do not believe in something because it is right or true, but rather because they think they have something to gain from it. There is some sort of magnet draw pulling them in. It is almost never a good thing.

So, best thing to do is to form our own beliefs.

Tony
 
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