RE: Atheism liberated me from pointless thinking,and made my life enjoyable.
October 5, 2014 at 9:11 am
(October 5, 2014 at 9:07 am)Tonus Wrote: 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.
It is not closely tied, it IS emotion itself. It is a woo word and gap answer from ignorance. It is our natural evolutionary "sense of awe". I have that too. I get it when I think of my mom, or my cat or the awesome power of nature.
"Spirituality" is a bullshit word rooted in mythology and superstition. I have absolutely no value for that word.
