<div dir="auto">As a fellow atheist, I understand the need- A place to have like minded people.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hinduism has had many groups over thousands of years that are outrightly atheist- if anti-god is what you are seeking. Jainism and Buddhism are purely agnostic if just a philosophical lifestyle is what you are seeking.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 14 Jan, 2024, 2:04 pm Peter Griffin via Silklist, <<a href="mailto:silklist@lists.digeratus.in">silklist@lists.digeratus.in</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Many years ago, when I worked with Forbes India, as part of an anniversary special, we commissioned an essay by Alain de Botton on a ‘religion for atheists’ (he has of course written and spoken about this extensively elsewhere). <a href="https://www.forbesindia.com/article/ideas-to-change-the-world/alain-de-botton-a-religion-for-atheists/13532/1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.forbesindia.com/article/ideas-to-change-the-world/alain-de-botton-a-religion-for-atheists/13532/1</a><br><br>I just came across this. <a href="https://theconversation.com/church-without-god-how-secular-congregations-fill-a-need-for-some-nonreligious-americans-215749" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://theconversation.com/church-without-god-how-secular-congregations-fill-a-need-for-some-nonreligious-americans-215749</a> <br><div><br></div><div>I resonate with the thought. After beginning my walk away from Christianity in my teens and twenties, and all religion some time after, there have been many times I missed some of the peripheral things about religion. The sense of community, the places of contemplative silence, the art, the music.</div><div><br></div><div>What do you folk — believers or otherwise — think?</div><div><br></div><div>~ peter</div></div>
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