(May 7, 2013 at 9:54 am)enrico Wrote: Since when an atheist is developing the spirit which is the most important part of every human being?
When I spend time with people I love and who love me in return;
when I lose myself in the emotional moment of a hauntingly captivating piece of music;
when I admire the beauty and the artistry of a painting or sculpture;
when I become absorbed in the world enshrined within the pages of a favourite novel;
when I look up at the night sky and allow my imagination free rein to explore the infinite expanse of the cosmos;
when I view amazing images of the natural world from the tiniest atomic structures to the Hubble Deep Field;
when I am enchanted by the innocent laughter of chidren at play -
- that is when I, an atheist, am developing that which you are happy to refer to as the spirit, and I resent the implication that I, an atheist, am somehow lacking in this 'important' human factor.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
