(July 15, 2017 at 4:00 pm)JackRussell Wrote: As an always atheist i find this fascinating. But I wonder if theists have ever understood that all of us have a sense of the numinous?It often surprises me how religious people don't get that I can feel awe or emotionally moved without some sort of spiritual beliefs. I often get "Oh, so you're not a total atheist then?". Yes! Yes I am! Why don't you understand that I'm human, just like you, with the same senses, feelings and need to find a place in the universe? Just because I take the credit for my own self-discovery, I'm somehow inhuman? It seems crazy.
Quote:I have have spent today walking my wife around Pevensey castle, and trying to evoke how this place would have been in C.290AD.I love Pevensey Castle! I used to visit a lot in my youth. It's about time I took the kids.
Quote:We are primates and evolution is pretty good at explaining why we feel things.
No magic required.
Doesn't stop it from feeling like magic though, and that's a big chunk of the problem right there. Simple human incredulity is easily exploited.
Sum ergo sum