RE: spiritual but not religious
March 29, 2019 at 6:09 pm
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2019 at 6:10 pm by Yonadav.)
(March 29, 2019 at 5:23 pm)yogamaster Wrote: Greetings!
I grew up Christian and was turned off by the dogma in my fundamentalist church, however I was left wanting to believe in some form of divine being because this was a major part of my upbringing and shaped my early experience with the world. Later I became interested in Buddhism because of its ties to spirituality without directly affirming an existence of god.
Is it possible to be spiritual but not religious, and if so could someone still be considered an atheist?
It depends on which sect of atheism you expect to join. There's Militant, Orthodox, and Reform.
Militant-- Religion is the root of all evil. Religion must be destroyed. There will one day be a golden age in which no one will be religious and there will apparently be peace on earth. Spirituality is the gawddam devil.
Orthodox-- There is no deity or deities, and spirituality is woo.
Reform-- All are welcome. Even theists.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
