RE: Atheism liberated me from pointless thinking,and made my life enjoyable.
October 20, 2014 at 8:26 am
(October 19, 2014 at 1:07 pm)Lek Wrote: Because you don't posses spirituality, you've decided there's no such thing. Billions of people are spiritual, but to you they're either lying or misinterpreting the experience. It goes like this: "Yes. I am spiritual." "No, your not spiritual, liar." "Yes, I experience it daily." "No. Sorry, but what you're experiencing is not spirituality." "But I have a relationship with God." "No you don't. There is no God, so you can't have a relationship with someone who doesn't exist."I think that if you ask a dozen people to define spirituality, you'll get 13 or 14 different definitions. I can easily accept many of those concepts, since they refer to emotional or creative states of mind that do not depend on the existence of 'spirit beings.' It is religious people who are more likely to accuse one another of not being spiritual, or not being spiritual enough, or being mislead by wicked spirits. And that is largely because like so many other aspects of religion, spirituality is wide open to interpretation.
"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
