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health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
#1
health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/uniq...lth-hazard

I thought this was interesting. A person can also make an argument against spiritual deists that if organized religion is needed to be both spiritual and healthy, and that it's good to be spiritual (God wants us to be spiritual), then he would send an organized religion to humanity.
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#2
RE: health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
Meh

Spiritual... religious....
6 of one half a dozen of the other.

(I was going to say, tomato tomato.... but that doesn't work as well without the audio Undecided)
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#3
RE: health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
I've always thought that people who claimed to be "spiritual" were merely trying to get away from the more absurd claims of "religion."

There is no evidence for "spirits," either.
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#4
RE: health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
There is no evidence for free-will, morality, praise, value, worth, etc..might as well disbelieve in that too.
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#5
RE: health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
(August 28, 2013 at 11:39 am)MysticKnight Wrote: There is no evidence for free-will, morality, praise, value, worth, etc..might as well disbelieve in that too.

Yea, there is also no evidence for air, wind, oxygen, love.
How about you think about what you just said
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain

'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House

“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom

"If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech
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#6
RE: health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
Correlation =/= Causation.

Could easily make the argument that those predisposed to mental health problems are also predisposed to be "spiritual" but have difficulties conforming to organized religion.
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#7
RE: health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
(August 28, 2013 at 11:39 am)MysticKnight Wrote: There is no evidence for free-will, morality, praise, value, worth, etc..might as well disbelieve in that too.

Go be ignorant somewhere else...
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#8
RE: health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
(August 28, 2013 at 1:51 pm)Rationalman Wrote:
(August 28, 2013 at 11:39 am)MysticKnight Wrote: There is no evidence for free-will, morality, praise, value, worth, etc..might as well disbelieve in that too.

Yea, there is also no evidence for air, wind, oxygen, love.
How about you think about what you just said

There is evidence for those things though. I might add, also, there is no evidence for a perpetual identity either.

Might as well disbelieve in yourself as well.
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#9
RE: health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
troll
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain

'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House

“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom

"If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech
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RE: health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
(August 28, 2013 at 11:39 am)MysticKnight Wrote: There is no evidence for free-will, morality, praise, value, worth, etc..might as well disbelieve in that too.

You jump off the deep end very easily, don't you?
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