Spirituality and atheism

[bennyboy]

Spirituality is just as irritating as any other supernatural bullshit. Its basically making shit up because you feel special.

I agree completely with this.

Neither of you understands what the word means to many of the people who use it, in my opinion.

Spiritual doesn't have to mean, "Dude, my four psychic winds are balanced." "Yeah, dude, my chakras are fully aligned, too." Just thinking deeply about the vastness of space, or trying to understand quantum physics, can lead to a mental state that I'd call spiritual.

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I think that Harris is being perhaps a bit liberal with the word 'spiritual', but after having seen him speak and debate, I'm quite confident that he's using that term far differently than Deepak Chopra would in this context.

Yes, but I think they would find a lot of common ground about the subjective nature of spiritual experiences, even if they completely disagreeed about what caused those experiences or what their significance was.