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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Subject6051@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago
[-] Dressedlikeapenguin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Not the genital mutilation, though, that's Jewish. I never understood why Christians do it. Didn't Jesus fulfill the law and the prophets? Plus there was a spat over adults converting, but not getting circumcized that was settled on the side of "not required". I may be remembering it wrong.

[-] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

It's an American thing. Australians mostly see it as mutilation; It isn't religion, it is yanks.

[-] Dressedlikeapenguin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Uh oh, my bias is showing again, lol.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The religious reason for Christianity is actually more complex than a Jewish holdover. It stems from the belief that circumcision will disincentivize masturbation, which is considered a sin by the Catholic Church.

[-] scv@discuss.online 8 points 1 year ago

Uh, what? Most Catholics aren't circumcised, that's an American thing.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Masturbation is the sin from the church. The American thing is to have babies circumcised to prevent masturbation

[-] Dressedlikeapenguin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Very on-brand. I'll have to look it up.

[-] Subject6051@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

didn't the christians get that from a pagan ritual or something? Even muslims are guilty of things like this, I would go on to talk about this if I had someone incharge of my security lol

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