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> Many people feel bonded to a community and its values even when engaging with a mythology that is obviously fictitious, as for example when people go to the d
by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y ago
> Many people feel bonded to a community and its values even when engaging with a mythology that is obviously fictitious, as for example when people go to the desert to burn the man every year; or dress up like aliens and head to Star Trek Vegas.
Seriously? You are including hobby clubs of sorts into the definition of religions in order to support your claim that many religions do not ask for faith?
So, atheist associations with regular meetings are religions, too, then, I suppose?
- solidsnack9000 8y agoIt is probably better to think of most religions as very dramatic hobby clubs. Just having regular meetings is not enough to be "performative" or "ritualistic". What if the atheist association always began every meeting with a hymn to Richard Dawkins, and then a ceremonial swim of a little model HMS Beagle around a miniature island, always widdershins (opposite to the sun)? This would be the beginnings of religion.