Not posted on spirituality and religion before, made a comment on a post a few days ago and got some very unpleasant , negative comments from atheists ranting and raving about all sorts!
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I have spiritual roots in both Christianity and Buddhism. I’m also trained as a scientist and have a long standing connection to secular humanism through that.
I don’t talk about specifics because I’m generally tortured here when I do.
For me the root of my spirituality is love, and that’s not something that is reflected in contempt, bitterness, judgement, hatred. When I see myself getting negative towards people I know I am losing my way. That love is also something given without concern for it being earned, deserved, warranted, That is the whole point really.
So when I see people of faith and secular humanist backgrounds just torturing eachother here I don’t understand the disconnect. I have friends of diverse spiritual backgrounds. This isn’t what we do to eachother. Or others. It’s not a thing.
