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From Seminary to Atheism
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RE: From Seminary to Atheism
(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.
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#22
RE: From Seminary to Atheism
Try this for a start thatwhichisn't
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...=110997741
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#23
RE: From Seminary to Atheism
(March 22, 2013 at 10:41 am)thatwhichisnt Wrote: There is some sort of transcendent experience people have; religious or not.

When you think about it, throughout human history, people have probably called out to god in prayer than in any other activity. But the second most is probably during sex. Wink
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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