They all serve their purpose in their context. Some of the problems that I perceive, particularly in the New Age ethos, is the mix and match mentality.

Shamanic smudging incorporated with Vsnavan chanting and a hint of Kabbalah thrown in.

My experience, in the world of New Age practice, is that it causes all sorts of psyche confusion and misunderstandings, especially with people who may have a mental illness of some kind.

The World Religions and indigenous practices have formats and formulas laid down and established over Millenia. They create powerful forces in individuals and therefore needed to be respected.

I am an agnostic, the way I look at it, when you start writing your beliefs in stone, you have lost your exploring spirit . . . for the most part, religions are all based on certain beliefs, written in stone, but with nothing whatsoever to back them up with.

I feel atheism is only a thing, because of religion. Otherwise, there we be no point in having the word atheist. But I feel that there are a lot of atheists, like myself, who don't really care about religion, but just want to be able to live and enjoy life without being judged by those who do believe. I don't go around trying to bash religion and believers, but if placed in a position to, I will definitely explain to believers why believing in a god doesn't make sense to me. But my M.O. is not to debate about it all the time. It gets old really quick when there is no new convincing information being presented.

Science is the basis for atheism, not anti Christianity.

To fulfil need to confront fear of dying

All religions were created to control the masses.

At age 13, I became an atheist when I realized the Bible is just a book of stories written by men.

Also, I was inspired by rational philosophers Descartes and Spinoza. In the 1600s, they were anti-church and anti-theist. They bravely defied the Catholic Church at a time when heretics were burned at the stake.

Being an atheist has nothing to do with "disproving Christianity."

I chose rational thought, not magical beliefs.

Religion is like a penis. It's okay to have one. Don't take it out, wave it around or try to shove it down people's throats.

Christianity and Islam are both about equally as loathesome. Judaism is about as crazy and repressive as they are but most Jews don’t take shit quite as seriously. All the smaller even more culty things like JW, Mormon and Scientology are really pioneering new levels of lunacy.

I still have a huge affinity for Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. Hinduism being the more out there of the bunch, but I see it as fascinating ancient mythology like I enjoy studying the Greek Norse and Egyptian pantheons. The old gods are the best. Really entertaining material and I think most descendants of people who believed this stuff literally recognize it as myth now.

Buddhism and Taoism I see as very important philosophies. Studying them and the different cosmology of eastern religion vs what I knew of western is what helped break me out of the dogma of religion. I see Buddhism, Taoism, TST Satanism, Dudism, and Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster as the perfect antitheist religious supplements/antidotes to anyone who was raised in abrahamic religion and still looks for community, philosophy and the comfort of ritual outside theism. There’s nothing supernatural required to follow any of them and they comprise a great set of ethics and philosophy.