(February 17, 2025 at 4:03 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: As a UU, I'm not against re-interpreting religious language in a more secular sense.
Many UUs don't like the word "spiritual" because it implies the existence of a supernatural spirit (or a supernatural spiritual realm).
I think most of us have gotten over it. The spiritual, even in theism, is about connection. They just imagine an other-worldly connection where we posit no such thing.
Yes, that makes sense to me.
I think I got too focussed on the word "spirituality" yesterday. You're right that the connotations it has for a lot of people will distract from the kind of thing I was talking about.
"Connection" is a good focus, I think. To lean toward those thoughts and activities which put us into the good part of the world, whether that's good groups of people, or nature, or the arts.
The opposite would then be all those things intended to alienate, to divide, to draw one's attention to the bad but distracting.
