I am Ganesh, an Indian atheist and I don’t eat beef. It’s not like that I have a religious reason to do that, but after all those years seeing cows as peaceful animals and playing and growing up with them in a village, I doubt if I ever will be able to eat beef. I wasn’t raised very religious, I didn’t go to temple everyday and read Gita every evening unlike most muslims who are somewhat serious about their religion, my family has this watered down religion (which has it’s advantages).
But yeah, not eating beef is a moral issue I deal with. I mean, I don’t care that I don’t eat beef, but the fact that I eat pork and chicken but not beef seems to me to be weird. So, is there any religious practice that you guys follow to this day?
edit: I like religious music, religious temples (Churches, Gurudwara’s, Temples & Mosques in Iran), religious paintings and art sometimes. I know for a fact that the only art you could produce is those days was indeed religious and the greatest artists needed to make something religious to be funded, that we will never know what those artists would have produced in the absence of religion, but yeah, religious art is good nonetheless.
I actually Help people in need. I barely have enough to make ends meet but, i see so many people who have the means to help, walk by. Ill have my lunch breaks with houseless people. if i get gas and i see a scraggly individual ill stop and tell em to come in with me. get whatever they need/want. which is a meal, and i have to tell them all the time its okay to get smokes and/or alcohol. If i got socks or a set of decent pair of gym shoes i was gonna replace i give it to them, if i see they are in need. i don’t thrust my unwanted items at them…I do not go into a building and circle jerk with others how pious we are…i do the Actual Work that jesus said to fucking do. and im atheist.
if there is a god, however, I’m going to stab him over 100+ times in the neck for all of humanity’s suffering, past, present, and future.
If god made Us in his Image. god deserves a taste of his medicine.