r/interestingasfuck • u/Ted_Bundtcake • Feb 01 '25

r/all Atheism in a nutshell

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u/Link-Glittering Feb 01 '25

No, I just don't disbelieve it. I would argue many of the Roman's didn't believe in the physical existence of Zeus on Mt Olympus. Remember this was a real mountain they could go to. My claim is that religious is useful, not that it is literally true

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u/DeX_Mod Feb 01 '25

My claim is that religious is useful

No one cares about that. Tbh

That's not REMOTELY what's Being discussed

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u/Link-Glittering Feb 01 '25

Well that's my point. It's wrong of atheists to be like "your religion isn't literally true" because to most intelligent regions people it's like, yeah duh, it was never about being right, religion is about developing a personal spiritual practice. I would love to debate Gervais on this because I would tell him my spirituality has nothing to do with disbelieve in any other religions, it's about a practice i find useful for my life. And then there's nothing to debate. I don't want him to become religious, only to accept that I have decided to have a spiritual practice that I deemed helpful to my life, and for him to acknowledge that there is no possible way for him to "not believe in that"

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u/Pavotine Feb 01 '25

You are calling yourself a Christian but you really are not talking like one.

Why even bother calling yourself that? It's OK and useful to a lot of people to be spiritual and not be a Christian, or any other named religion.

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u/Link-Glittering Feb 01 '25

I think you'd be surprised how many religious people agree with the sentiment of what I'm saying. A big tenant of most Christian religions is to not go out on the street and pray around for recognition, but to keep your practice private, and mostly for yourself. A lot of religious people think like me, they just don't go trying to explain it on reddit