EvF I totally understand your point. There are days when doubt niggles away at the back of my mind. This doubt made me abandon the orthodox version of God for reasons not dissimilar to the reasons you abandoned Spirituality altogether. However, I can not bring myself to accept any form of atheism.
I see atheism as materialism. You might ask 'So What?'. Well I was brought up in a household which embraced trade unionism/socialism. Both my Dad and Granddad were trade union reps at one point in their lives and me and my mum have been union members since we started work. I still have a copy of The Communist Manifesto despite abandoning communism well before I left school. This environment has left me distrustful of any type of materialism. If that was not enough my family embraced Christian Socialism rather than its Secular cousin. This means the obvious secular connotations of atheism/materialism sit at odds with me. Hope that enlightened someone in some way rather than just amounting to a paragraph of me ranting on about my life so far!
I see atheism as materialism. You might ask 'So What?'. Well I was brought up in a household which embraced trade unionism/socialism. Both my Dad and Granddad were trade union reps at one point in their lives and me and my mum have been union members since we started work. I still have a copy of The Communist Manifesto despite abandoning communism well before I left school. This environment has left me distrustful of any type of materialism. If that was not enough my family embraced Christian Socialism rather than its Secular cousin. This means the obvious secular connotations of atheism/materialism sit at odds with me. Hope that enlightened someone in some way rather than just amounting to a paragraph of me ranting on about my life so far!
