RE: Atheism liberated me from pointless thinking,and made my life enjoyable.
October 5, 2014 at 9:07 am
To me, spirituality is closely tied to emotion. And we are emotional beings. If a person wants to call that spirituality and assign it a deeper meaning, they can reap emotional rewards from it. I am no less moved by a thundering waterfall or massive cloud formation than I was as a theist, because my reaction to those was always emotional. Realizing that made the process of deconversion a bit easier, because the things that made life enjoyable were not lost when I removed god from the equation.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
