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I Am Not Religious

Spirituality... Spiritual usually has something to do with the immaterial.I personally think that you can have a spiritual connection with nature and experiencing it's beauty. People get so caught up in their busy lives in their dirty desensitizing cities. I truly feel at peace just sitting at the shoreline of Lake Ontario. Understanding nature is more important then understanding the creator. If the creator is sentient, perhaps understanding it's creation will help understand this thing itself if it exists. I strongly admire the Lakota and other native Americans for their amazing connection with nature. I am atheist in the sense of a particular definition of god. that would be the Semitic Idea of god, a hateful, jealous, judgemental psychopath who claims to be love, but then requires bloodshed for forgiveness (yes, yet again I'm emphasizing the bloodshed - forgiveness issue) I have a huge problem with it. Love should not require blood, its illogical. and to make it even worse, this god plays this sick game of letting you get tempted by the evil one, and punishes you for disbelief of one of many many religions - its the more refine form of pascals wager. he seems to have left out the fact that other religions exist.you don't receive spirituality from corrupted men, you get it from understanding and experience. and to an extent you are right, out right nothingness! I don't know how to explain except as a deep connection with your natural surroundings, its a deep emotion like love.The Bible was written by man, which for me is already enough to invalidate it. man's corruption is littered all over it. The Bible and other books are static, they do not progress or benefit with new and improved societies, and they definitely do not improve bad ones True love does not mean the requirement of animal or human blood sacrifice as a condition for forgiveness. Endless torture is not a proper punishment for not accepting love. I like using this moral idea I heard awhile ago, If you were the last person on earth, is there anything wrong you could do? if you said no, then you can only conclude that morality is dependent on the social situation. there is no such think as a set solid rule for what is right or wrong.I definitely consider Buddhists to be atheists in the sense that they reject a personified god.

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Nandor

I'm not an atheist, but I think spirituality is not necessary connected with religion. Of course an atheist or agnostic can be spiritual as well. Besides, human values are not preserved for religious people exclusively. Deep reverence to nature, feeling of being linked with all human beings, non egoistic approach to life are are spiritual and moral tendencies.

Yes morality is a controversial issue. The people have done the worst things in the name of morality. And they keep doing it. Shortly, morality is a feature that strengthens with your self-growing; and spirituality is not prescribed set of rules. It is your quality of relating to others.

"you don't receive spirituality from corrupted men, you get it from understanding and experience."

I agree

"Endless torture is not a proper punishment for not accepting love. "

I agree. Love is unconditional.

"The Bible was written by man, which for me is already enough to invalidate it. man's corruption is littered all over it. The Bible and other books are static, they do not progress or benefit with new and improved societies,"

Slightly disagree. Bible is not a set of rules. It is a product of one time and consequently it reflects all delusions and prejudices of that time. And writers of Bible books are not unmistakable. But I accept liberal tendencies of interpreting Bible. There are new insights that we must take into account when dealing with Bible. And there are liberal believers who accept this liberal points of view. I think the Bible has potential to relate to contemporary Christians. And there are many places in Bible which can help people to get rid of their biases, hatred and intolerance. Because of that, the problem in my opinion is not Bible itself but corrupted people (as you said) who've been using it in nonspiritual purposes.

Of course, I'm not trying to say that you should accept Bible if it interfere with your beliefs and reason.

Thank you for the topic.

MrMorality

This topic was inspired by another thread he was involved in, he isn't that clever to have these thoughts on his own.

dinosaurcavemandude · 31-35, M

I wrote this back in January of 2012.