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This ain't adding up.....

Well what the title says, I don't go to any religious places on my own but I also don't force my beliefs to others so one day 3 of us meet at my home city (all of us work at different cities) and did some timepass and then two of them decided to go somewhere and there was a temple nearby, a Ganesh temple.. that was the first time I went there and just wanted to share the experience.. environment was calm and soothing but I was confused as to what to do as a never been to a temple before (I'm from a Buddhist family) so just followed their lead..

And one thing only came to my mind is that it would be great if people in general were this good in practical life and not like the extremist we see..

Felt like the goodness was just to show the stone that we are nice..

Here to share an interesting incident I observed.

So, My father is in real estate and one of his friend came home and asked for the property papers of the land he is a broker in. So, I was like fine, cool!

Then, he said he wants to show this to a Brahmin so that the deal gets finalized soon and how important it is to do this. Further he added, you people are Jains so maybe you might not believe but this actually works even your father has started believing in this things now (no he has not, he might pretend to to just get the work done).

I have like, ok fine. In my mind I was like, "Why should I even take an effort to teach him a thing or two when his basics itself are not clear"

Then he left. Personally, now I don't even blame those people who give validation to people, the fault is with them who still believe in these stuff.

What do you think?

Hi, I'm someone whos just on the edge of becoming an atheist the only thing question that is imposed is this:-

A few years back someone I knew was in a very critical condition in the hospital. Now at that time we had access to probably the best doctors in the country, the best equipment and we had all the facilities that would we could possible need.

Despite all this the doctors said that there's still not a great chance that the person would make it.

What do you do in such a situation. I, at that time with the rest of my family was praying to my god with everything I could. It was the only thing that gave me hope and a bit of assurance.

If at that time I would have adopted the idea of atheism what would that factor be for me that was equivalent to God at that time. What could possibly give me hope?

To think that there is a deity, a power above us all that could help me here is assuring and I don't see any idea like that in atheism which would probably suggest "Well it is what is" but that doesn't sit well with me at that instant of time does it?

This is probably the only dilemma keeping me from being an atheist. Atheists of India how do you overcome this?

I am a student of CA (Chartered Accountant), so I go to classes. Our law sir said one of his friends who is also a teacher (he is 60) also teaches law. Wait for this...

asks for your KUNDALI to check whether you can become a CA or not and the real problem is he is a great teacher

this is just the stupidest thing I have ever heard

This is a follow up question to an earlier thread here https://www.reddit.com/r/atheismindia/s/i8gH2PVIke

I do not believe anyone is born believing an alien, supernatural sky daddy. This belief in this widespread superstition only happens via constant brainwashing that starts with your parents, family and then larger society, schools and colleges where it is normalized.

So at what age were you brainwashed ?

https://reddit.com/link/1h2stpk/video/qi9pnxqrzv3e1/player

Found this old video of people covering their entire body with Panchgavya (cow dung, cow urine, etc.) to cure Covid and to get vitamin B12.

Living in the indian community is so frustrating as an atheist seeing that everything revolves around hinduism, movies, tv shows everything.

My mother and my sister believe in this kundli shit and baba's and astrology. I am recently involved in a new business endeavor and my mother went to a pandit to show my kundli, the pandit said that tell him to do a job, if he does business he will fail.

My mother completely believing comes home and tells me with pure belief that i will fail.

Like fuck man, i can never understand how people just believe this shit as it is. Do 99% of people just lack basic critical thinking or are they just too lazy to ask questions?

Hey, so I was born in a Progressive Liberal Muslim family with my parents having "TAKE THE GOOD AND LEAVE THE BAD FROM RELIGION" mentality and I am very grateful about it. Happy that I was born in India and not a few hundred kms left or right of the border, lol.

Anyways, it was yesterday's evening when my dad started criticizing the lack of UCC in India. I was in my parent's room at that time and decided to take my chance asking him about his opinions on Islamic Law, Maulvis and Afterlife and Oh boyyy! I absolutely loved his replies. Regarding Maulvis he was frustrated and said that they are more interested about the length of your clothes and beard than poverty, women education and other issues. I was not shocked bcs I knew he was more of a secular humanist but his opinion regarding afterlife is what I found interesting, he said "Everyone irrespective of there religion will go to heaven based on there deeds".

My mom although she is very religious praying 6 times a day, she was also there and agreed with everything he said. My parents still call themselves Muslim and I could have shown them how there beliefs are entirely different from the Islamic belief, I didn't and I am happy abt it mainly bcs Ik that they see religion as a form of hope and I didn't wanted to break that hope :))