I do not know how to define the word "spiritual", since I do not use the term. For me, the word is almost incoherent.
For every person that uses the term, I get different definitions every time.
If one wants to use the term to describe the feeling of awe when, say, they look at a nebula through a telescope, then I guess that's fine. But it seems to be dragging a lot of woo baggage along with it.
But most people use it to describe some sort of unevidenced, and contradictory supernatural crap. Christians use it, pagans use it, Tarot card readers use it, "energy healers", etc, etc use it. And they all are referring to different things when they use it.
For every person that uses the term, I get different definitions every time.
If one wants to use the term to describe the feeling of awe when, say, they look at a nebula through a telescope, then I guess that's fine. But it seems to be dragging a lot of woo baggage along with it.
But most people use it to describe some sort of unevidenced, and contradictory supernatural crap. Christians use it, pagans use it, Tarot card readers use it, "energy healers", etc, etc use it. And they all are referring to different things when they use it.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
