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Originally Posted by Daradon
Well that's what he's asking about. Spirituality obviously falls within the realm of theism. Course I get kinda bent about peoples misunderstanding between religion and spirituality, but religion does serve to (try and) answer the spiritual questions. Besides it's other more darker and political purposes.  |
I guess I was just answering that question - if you were to make a Venn diagram of Atheism and spirituality there won't be any overlap.
Religion aside, there is no difference between believing in God or believing in some phenomen that you haven't witnessed but would like to think happens (e.g. a person's consciousness floats around without a physical body). So I don't know how somebody could describe themselves as an atheist while having spiritual beliefs.
I won't put words into people's mouths, but if they believe that some part of them continues on, that would suggest some kind of supernatural being pulling the strings on that. Since all conventional forms of energy or matter could be explained, then something unexplainable and unknowable needs to be the driving force for keeping these souls and consciousnesses afloat wherever they are.