RE: Spirituality as an atheist?
December 16, 2015 at 5:02 pm
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2015 at 5:02 pm by Cyberman.)
You're missing the point. Even if we accept as incontrovertible that "God is spirit", it absolutely does not follow that everything spirit is "God". For my money, I think the word "spirituality" is a sloppy one, with far too much loaded baggage. I would much rather a cleaner label for such experiences. But we're stuck with it, for reasons of linguistic tradition. To cream over "ramifications" of the limitations of language is not only to tilt at windmills, it's attempting to run before you learn to crawl. First you need to demonstrate that all spiritual experiences have a godly source and no other; then we can talk about what the ramifications are for non-theists.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
