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Share a BookA satirical book on gender woo
Just started reading ‘The End of the World is Flat’ by Simon Edge. It’s satire on how the world came to adopt gender lunacy. Thought I’d recommend it here!
Somewhere between atheist and agnostic (kind of depends on my mood, I guess), with antitheist underpinnings. I don't think the need to believe in something is inherently bad, but organized religion is problematic.
I am a Jewish agnostic who keeps kosher and occasionally goes to synagogue. A lot of Jews both practice but are atheists or agnostics. It’s what you do that counts, in contrast to Christianity where believing is all that matters.
Religion is responsible for so much oppression and suffering. It is a tool of patriarchal control. It is the primary element in the devolution of humanity. It is the greatest scourge and calamity of humanity. It needs to die.
I follow the old ways. I don't know what category that is.
Ancestor worship? Monastic?
Belief is important. It grounds us, gives us an understanding of our place in the universe and a support structure when things are disordered.
Ritual is important. It gives us a way to mark and remember the awesome as well as the mundane.
Meditation (prayer) is important because it teaches us to be alone with ourselves but connected to the universal.
Spiritual community is important. Even if one doesn't believe in a "soul," it is impossible to deny our need to see a sparkle in the eyes of our fellows.
So say the ancestors. So say we all. ;)
I’m studying Dianic Witchcraft. I believe the universe and earth are Goddess.
Oops I meant "spiritual" for the second option 🤦♀️ typo
It sounds like the beginning of a Latin incantation. Spiritu lesbianu vulvatum 🔮 😌
I’m an agnostic, I like to keep it safe.
Mostly antitheist, with leanings towards agnosticism. I distrust all major organised religions, I think they're all patriarchal and constructed to appeal to and control men. They control women too, but we're afterthoughts and we're not really the target audience. I also reject the idea that random people we don't know wrote down some fairy tale shit on some paper and we're just supposed to believe it explains reality and creation. Nah.
That being said, I have connected with the universe/fabric of reality and had it speak back to me in a way that I can't explain with science or logic. So agnostic feels right for now.
Controlling men is a good thing though. They need to be controlled. I think woman do well well with freedom, but men really do need strict rules for life.
Whenever I see women here say religion is good/needed because it controls men, I always wonder, why are 95% of the rules, restrictions and punishments inflicted on women then? (not that you were really saying that right now - just something I've been thinking about and felt relevant here)
Yes, they do. I have a burgeoning theory that all religions and most philosophy was aimed at controlling men and keeping civilization functional. Come up with a set of principles and ideas and guilt-trip the majority of men into following them so that humanity survives. And so that the top dog remained top dog, but mostly to keep the masses subdued and scared of punishment from some mysterious external force that wasn't the top dog.
Atheist in the sense of completely lacking faith in anything magical and paranormal: gods, werewolves, karma, bigfoot, etc. Against organised religion because those actively instruct their adherents how to think based on magical and paranormal notions. Not necessarily "anti-theist" though? Anyone can believe what they want to believe; just don't take it too serious if it's not rooted in reality.
I don't adhere to any particular spiritual or religious belief system or traditions, but I believe that many of the myths, stories, and practices of religious peoples were/are capable of mediating the effects of tragedy/disaster/despair. Fundamentalist beliefs of any kind never appealed to me. The major religions center men and their interests, while undermining women and girls, and that's unfortunate.
Nevertheless, spiritual practices like prayer can be helpful even if you do not believe in a god: You can pray to your own higher intuition and insight on a matter and parts of your brain will go to work for you (often providing an answer in a dream or after a good night's sleep). Meditation is great. Quiet reflection and periods of solitude. Dining together or "breaking bread." Forgiveness (but not always). The Golden Rule... all of these practices seem good to me.
I have no beliefs but I'm really interested in religion and spiritualism from an anthropological point of view.
Agnostic - possibility of a higher life form - ok. But a man who keeps a naughty or nice list? Um, no.
I am an atheist, and I wouldn't say that I am "spiritual" because I do not believe that we have spirits. However, I do believe that inner enrichment of my mind and a coherent system of beliefs important, and I am slowly developing my own practice for that. My practice is shaped by Romantic Satanism, feminism, and nature.
What's Romantic Satanism?
Non-theistic, examines the concept of Satan from Romantic era literature. A good book on the topic is by Lilith Starr. It underlies the basis of The Satanic Temple.
I’m agnostic. I used to be atheist but I no longer believe were computers that go in the ground and die and that’s it. I tend to believe more in energy than a literal god or goddess, though I enjoy goddess imagery and terminology. I just can’t say I fully believe anything or say I don’t believe in anything.
Apathetic. I was raised evangelical, but I was never much of a believer. I don't have particular feelings for or against God or religion.
Spiritual for women's non-hierarchical religions, antitheist for patriarchal religions which I believe are all fundamentally evil and irredeemably misogynistic, and for any enforced religious practice.
I think that the new agey stuff is often patriarchal and an anti-intellectual cultish thing but in contrast the women's spirituality movement is very interesting and contains scholars of ancient "herstory," that earth-based animistic belief systems are a way our ancestors teach important ecological stewardship.. and I think if the women's spirituality movement weren't materially good for women in some way then males and handmaidens wouldn't spend so much energy getting mad and/or mocking them trying to convince us all they are the most cringe religion ever.
I'm a reincarnationist, but not as a part of any established religious tradition. Raised Catholic, but it never made sense to me, so I kept looking until I found something that did.
I’m a believer in the substitution hypothesis ie that humanity is predisposed for some sort of religious belief (or need to believe in something bigger in ourselves that we can share with others) and if no religion is available something else will take its place which will be given the same devotion and need to proselytise and inspire destructive impulses. Soviet communism and Maoism are examples as is the TRA cult. I think organised religion is almost a necessity (in evolutionary, psychological, and sociological terms) in civilisations where living in groups of more than 150 is the norm as it’s a common bond and reference point that can tie a community together. If it’s not organised religion it’ll be something else and so far the ‘something elses’ are more horrifying.
Looking at what religion is doing to women all over the world (though especially in certain parts...) I sort of doubt that. I feel like it can't get much more horrifying than being whipped (or perhaps brutally tortured and murdered) if you wear a scarf wrong, holding down girls to cut their genitals with rusty scissors, being married off to an old man as a preteen........ Even when it's not that extreme nearly all religions teach that women must be subservient, are somehow lesser humans, that out only purpose is to act as incubators etc etc. Religion is nothing but harmful, we don't need this.
Atheist wokebros and MRAs do a pretty good job of believing in the inferiority of women. James Damore used science to justify why women can’t code. Soviet Russia saw women as economic units to be put to more ‘productive’ work than being mothers and who had to have maternal bonds with their children weakened and be punished for pregnancy which interfered with their factory work.
I’m pretty sure those who endured Soviet gulags or starved to death at the hands of Mao or went through the atrocities at the hands of a certain Austrian painter would struggle to agree that what they went through is an inferior sort of horror.
Agree