Atheists who aren’t fond of organized religion, where do you stand on personal spirituality?
I know some atheists are pretty "whatever" on other people having religion while others are actually against organized religion, but what is your stance on non-religious personal spirituality?
I’m extremely anti-theist but even I’ll admit I prefer personal spirituality. At least it’s coming from the heart and showing effort to explore the possibilities. I don’t consider religion spiritual because it’s missing the journey and excluding your own personal interpretations.
its bullshit and should be treated as such.
edit: we dont even need the word spirituality, we could use words such as emotions, thoughts, sensations and other words when appropriate.
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Why are you asking atheists for the opinion on anything religious? Doesn’t calling them atheists mean you already know their opinions about religion?
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If you define spirituality as something within ones self such as peace, calm, happiness, answers within ones self as to what is meaningful personally and so on, then I am all for it. If, however, you define spirituality as looking for answers from some outside source, a god that controls things, life after death or some reward or better place, a soul you can’t prove is there, AKA religion, then I am against it, it solves nothing in any practical way, it seems unproductive.
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I’m extremely anti-theist but even I’ll admit I prefer personal spirituality. At least it’s coming from the heart and showing effort to explore the possibilities. I don’t consider religion spiritual because it’s missing the journey and excluding your own personal interpretations.
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The reason some atheists are "whatever" on religion and others are opposed to it is equivocation. When the "whatever" atheist talks about religion, she means the feel-good Christian or moderate Muslim who goes to church or mosque, then comes home and doesn’t bother anyone else. When the anti-theist atheist talks about religion, he means the fundamentalists and radicals who find justification for cruelty within religious dogma. Let us never forget this distinction.
As for personal spirituality, who could be against it? It’s personal, so it doesn’t intrude. If I wanted to be bothered by your spirituality, I would need to tear it out of you, and that would be silly.
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im generally spiritual myself anyway, so id say im fine with it ;-D
as a pagan atheist i kinda have i think a balanced outlook on life, i see both sides, spiritual, and material
im fine with everyone as long as they are fine with eveyrone too
its when soemone feels the need to force their views on others i have a problem with them, and that goes for any person, not any specific religion or non religion
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As I’ve always maintained, there’s something very spiritual about walking through a bog on an early summer’s morning watching the mist burn off.
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