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Originally Posted by edslunch
I was raised in the church. My father was very involved, my grandfather was a bishop. After years of reciting "I believe in...." I had the courage to say no, I don't believe in that.
I believe there is more to our existence than our physical bodies and that there are great unknowns in the spiritual realm. But I also believe that all religion is man made, supported by legend and myth passed down through the generations. I don't believe in an all-knowing, all-powerful supreme being. I don't believe in a god that answers our prayers or allows bad things to happen because 'it's his will' or 'he works in mysterious ways'.
I am not one to say religion is the root of all evil. Religion has helped many achieve great peace and great achievements. As any human institution it can also aid, abet and foster evil, which is much more a comment on human nature than on religion.
So I guess this makes me an atheist, but still spiritual. It seems many describe themselves this way.
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I agree with everything you said but the part where you say your "still spiritual" kind of baffles me as you didn't explain it.
I truly admit to being an atheist in a religious sense therefore I can't be "spiritual" as somehow that has a religious tone to it. I believe we as humans are just another form of animals that evolved on this planet, we have larger brains than most and with that our species has grown to fear death and we don't want to admit when were dead there is nothing..we are just another dead animal in the cycle of life.
To me a perfect world would be to people to stop fearing death and living life and enjoying life around them, religion and it's fears has destroyed this IMO.