Irreligious people: what does "sacrality" mean to you? How does that answer affect your behavior?
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I asked in part because I have trouble characterizing my sense of sacredness. Here's my attempt:
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Replying to @kanjun and @_Jose_Miguel_S
I'll try.
For me, "sacrality" describes a way of relating, emphasizing reverence, awe, majesty, transcendence.
Some things reliably exist in this relationship with me: Pale Blue Dot, forests, dancing cellular mechanisms, Falcon stages landing. Most flicker in and out.
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I was surprised how resistant many replies were to notions of the sacred. A number of people assumed—sometimes a bit self-righteously!—that I myself am religious. I'm not! But sacrality is still very real for me, and it's only become more so over the past decade.
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This from Jonathan Sacks nicely captures a piece of it for me: "In essence, spirituality is what happens when we open ourselves to something greater than ourselves." rabbisacks.org/introduction-t (via Luke Burgis's "Wanting")
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Spirituality is to religion as alcohol-free beer is to beer.
Human beings should have a sense of awe and humbleness in their understanding of nature. But that should come from learning and comprehension. Not from a diluted mirroring of supernatural worship.
