Atheists, is there anything religious that sticks with you to this day?

Ganesh Venugopal@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 320 points –

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.

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For me it's funeral potatoes, or half the desert dishes from various potlucks that would happen in the chapel gym.

Jokes on them though, all those recipes are posted online now! Don't need a temple recommend for that shit lol.

For a moment I was worried that "funeral potatoes" was some euphemism for something there that I couldn't identify

You may be thinking of soaking.

Yeah, even though I went on a mission and have tons of family from Utah/AZ/Nevada/Cali, I'm on the East Coast so a lot of LDS culture like that didn't sink in. I would honestly probably participate in ex-mo stuff more if I had to deal with it on a daily basis, but I'm fine mostly pretending it doesn't exist!