(September 23, 2018 at 5:47 pm)Bahana Wrote: How many atheists here use that word to describe yourselves? How would you define it? I'm hesitant in using it because the word has a lot of supernatural baggage.
Well, the definition of "spiritual" in the dictionary suffers from root infection, i.e., it uses the root of the word (spirit) in the definition.
The definition of "spirit", again from the dictionary, has well over a dozen definitions, some overlapping and some quite distinct.
I would think use of the words "spirit" or "spiritual " are susceptible to confusion.
That being said, a few of the definitions for "spirit" (and implicitly "spiritual") deal with religion, metaphysics and associated woo woo.
Once a speaker/writer uses the word, and is clear that they are speaking/writing from the religion/metaphysics/woo woo perspective (good luck at getting many of them to be so clear), then the conversation can proceed.
