j a c k *: My Life as Nothing…
Good post, and good expression of the progression from nothing to skeptic to atheist. I personally try to delink my own spirituality from any religious worldview, and my standard response to if there is a God would have to be “I don’t know and neither do you”. I sort of consider myself an all-theist – what if everyone is actually right, and all the stories are true? Perhaps to some minds, religion is a crutch or tool, to others it is a necessary belief to have in order to live their lives without going insane. To an atheist, it’s necessary to live without a god. To me, it’s necessary to simply enjoy my own spirituality without worrying about that of other people – to enjoy nature, my own felt connections with others, and my own feelings that somehow we are all connected if only by virtue of life itself. But read the posting and maybe you can appreciate the atheist viewpoint….
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