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health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
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RE: health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
I've never really understood the "spiritual, but not religious" claim. OK, so you believe in a higher power but you don't actively worship it, or something?
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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RE: health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
(August 28, 2013 at 10:06 am)LostLocke Wrote: (I was going to say, tomato tomato.... but that doesn't work as well without the audio Undecided)

You have to spell the middle part phonetically.

To-may-to, to-mah-to.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#13
RE: health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
I know so many people who make that claim. Most of them are on a serious hippy-trip. It doesn't surprise me that there is a higher rate of mental illness and it wouldn't surprise me at all if it had to do with drug consumption. LSD, Mushrooms and even weed seem to give some people 'spiritual feelings.' They also lead to mental health problems. Not a big mystery or surprise to me.
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RE: health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
(August 28, 2013 at 4:21 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I've never really understood the "spiritual, but not religious" claim. OK, so you believe in a higher power but you don't actively worship it, or something?
Isn't that kinda like in the 70s when everyone claimed they were "bisexual" just because that let you say you weren't "all the way" gay?Tongue

(August 28, 2013 at 4:24 pm)Faith No More Wrote:
(August 28, 2013 at 10:06 am)LostLocke Wrote: (I was going to say, tomato tomato.... but that doesn't work as well without the audio Undecided)

You have to spell the middle part phonetically.

To-may-to, to-mah-to.
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RE: health dangers of being spiritual without religion.
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