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Atheists: What do you think of this Atheistic religion?
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First, i am a non-religious Atheist.I found this religion yesterday on R&S. It is called the Raelian Movement. What interested me was the fact that this religion is based on intelligent design. However, before you immediately discredit it, you should know their version of intelligent design is quite a bit amount different than theistic religions. This is what caught my eye. I wanted to see how you can explain intelligent design AND be Atheist. But the concept of the religion in a nutshell is we were created by a human race like us who were created by a human race like them so on and so forth to populate what we know as the universe. Their is some conflict with current theories in my opinion. But after downloading the free E book ( intelligent design) to see what this religion is about, i found it makes much more sense than any theistic religion( it explains all those as well) . I would say it is most similar to Buddhism but takes it a bit farther. I found the book to be pleasant reading( as in not a bunch of mumbo jumbo) and in the least entertaining as i am big into sci fi and astronomy.
So i am wondering what do other Atheists think of this religion? My own view is it didn’t convert me as i found a few things that i could not agree with. One being have faith and believe and then they ( creator race) will come. An advanced race that promotes an intelligent society ran by intelligent people( geniuses) would know that such people require evidence to believe in something( To be fair they do have a reason for this given our obvious aggressive nature such as the military). It is what sets us apart from the goddidits. Yeah i know a wall of text but you cant fit the whole concept of an atheistic religion in 5 lines, unlike christianity which can be fit in one word, BS
forgot to add the link :
http://rael.org/rael_content/index.php
Andrew their are in fact several atheistic religions. Do look up the word in the dictionary.
and honestly i am a bit disappointed with the answers i have seen so far. Atheists are suppose to be open minded to embrace knowledge and science. But many of you are judging like a christian and in fact are wrong in many of your assumptions.I am not promoting raelian, but i was expecting a little more of an informed answer not a oh i have no clue what is about so it is BS. In fact many of things you believe can be found in this religion.
Valekhai: That is not how it goes in the book actually close but no. The prophets are not biological robots but real people.