(March 22, 2013 at 4:19 am)catfish Wrote:(March 21, 2013 at 3:36 pm)thatwhichisnt Wrote: I originally wrote this for another forum I am a member of. When I found this community I decided to post it after a little editing.
Cool, I ended up finding your other posts.
Which leads me to ask you what experiencing the "holy spirit" feels like and if you actually experienced it, why are you an atheist?
I think we have a tendency of totally dismissing any "spiritual" experiences as atheists. There is some sort of transcendent experience people have; religious or not. Christians feel it during a worship experience, Muslims on pilgrimages, Hindu's during chanting, Buddhists during meditation, when someone experiments with psychedelics, or Neil deGrasse Tyson when he contemplates the universe. Something happens. I do not know what. Some people interpret it as the holy spirit, some allah, and the like. Maybe a neuroscientist can explain it much better than I. I just know something happens, but that doesn't mean it comes from a higher power. This world is far, far, far more strange than we give it credit for.
