(July 21, 2014 at 3:06 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote: My theist girlfriend has tried to tell me that she feels that because I'm a good person that she feels that she likes my spirituality. But I've told her pretty flatly that spirituality either means believing in the "supernatural" (as in, the actual definition of what the words mean) or it is a useless term (as it seems to be since it is vaguely applied in New Age terms to almost everything). I just try to follow the Golden Rule. That's it. No more, unnecessarily complicated, "divinely originated" rules required.
Not useless, spirituality can be used to describe knowing your own self and being at peace, with a metaphorical meaning. just like 'you have no soul' can be used metaphorically and not to claim a soul really exists.
What's your girlfriend's religion?
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
