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<blockquote data-quote="UglyBastard" data-source="post: 759" data-attributes="member: 27">I&#039;m an atheist, but I&#039;m very interested in the occult and the study of religions in general. My interest began in 2014 when I read Joseph Campbell&#039;s &quot;The Hero with a Thousand Faces&quot;. After that I started to look at religions a little more appreciation, I began to search for the reasons for certain doctrines, rituals, customs, etc. I generally avoid writing about religion because it&#039;s a subject that many people end up taking very personally, and depending on the word I use I can be perceived as intolerant or prejudiced. But since we have a part of the forum dedicated to discussing religion and philosophy, I felt free to do so.Perhaps I&#039;ll write about Buddhism and Islam in the future, although my knowledge is more focused on Christianity and its variations.There is a lot of knowledge and wisdom in traditional religions. Certain customs such as dowry, marriage, chastity and the like didn&#039;t come about simply because some religious leader saw fit to create them. Most of the time, there is no specific creator for these customs, they arise naturally as a response to some problem that the people may have experienced.Obviously, the overwhelming majority of customs and traditions simply don&#039;t apply to me, as I live a completely different life to the people who have integrated these religions in the past. In any case, I find it interesting to see how modern society struggles with problems that were&nbsp; already addressed in the past but which, with the abandonment of traditions, have suffered again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UglyBastard, post: 759, member: 27"] I'm an atheist, but I'm very interested in the occult and the study of religions in general. My interest began in 2014 when I read Joseph Campbell's "The Hero with a Thousand Faces". After that I started to look at religions a little more appreciation, I began to search for the reasons for certain doctrines, rituals, customs, etc. I generally avoid writing about religion because it's a subject that many people end up taking very personally, and depending on the word I use I can be perceived as intolerant or prejudiced. But since we have a part of the forum dedicated to discussing religion and philosophy, I felt free to do so. Perhaps I'll write about Buddhism and Islam in the future, although my knowledge is more focused on Christianity and its variations. There is a lot of knowledge and wisdom in traditional religions. Certain customs such as dowry, marriage, chastity and the like didn't come about simply because some religious leader saw fit to create them. Most of the time, there is no specific creator for these customs, they arise naturally as a response to some problem that the people may have experienced. Obviously, the overwhelming majority of customs and traditions simply don't apply to me, as I live a completely different life to the people who have integrated these religions in the past. In any case, I find it interesting to see how modern society struggles with problems that were already addressed in the past but which, with the abandonment of traditions, have suffered again. [/QUOTE]

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