3/ The atheist's reaction is usually that the spiritual person is trying to dismiss some form of verified, scientific truth. Must remember: *spirituality is a reckoning with the universe.* Stone cold reality. (The below isn't worded strongly enough.)https://twitter.com/michaelcurzi/status/1206060102093922304 …
I am not sure that we can derive the same nutrients from them without this belief.
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It’s a good question. My take on this has been that the/a purpose of religion is to help mankind with the difficulties that we face. Existential despair, uncertainty about the basis of everything are some of these challenges...
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Before we had the thing we think about as religion, we had different, terrifying difficulties that we thankfully don’t have to nearly the degree that we do now. So it’s possible that the same answers won’t work for us as worked for people in the past. Still, the teachings aren’t
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