Just curious on your point of view....thanks for answering.
2007-08-23 18:00:13 · 12 answers · asked by trinity 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thank you all so very much for being kind and tolerant of my ignorance concerning this matter...
blessings 2 you all
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trinity
2007-08-23 18:33:42 · update #1
I think so, even though I'm agnostic, not an atheist. Spirituality for an atheist can begin with the belief that there is no god, and then continue to contemplate the same questions that theists contemplate, such as how did we get here, what is the Universe all about, etc.
The fact that such questions are largely scientific ones does not, I think, preclude an element of mystery that could be considered spiritual in nature.
I also think that if an atheist wanted to consider his/her path to be either spiritual or not, it would be up to the person, and in the end, the word spiritual wold matter less than the person's thoughts and feelings about all these infinite and unanswered questions that face us all, whatever we call our path.
Great question!
BB,
LM )0(
2007-08-24 05:15:25 · answer #1 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don´t think atheism is a pathway on its own, i think it´s just like a hipothetic statement (such as the existence of God) that guides you toward a more introspective and self-improving spirituality. Atheism is a very relative term and it is just a belief into a much more complex group of thoughts, which might be called ¨spiritual pathway¨
2007-08-24 01:13:09 · answer #2 · answered by ameba 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Atheism could be considered to be a spiritual belief as many atheists believe in humanism or naturalism. They believe in a lack of a supernatural being.
2007-08-24 01:10:30 · answer #3 · answered by Chris (Yoolbe) N 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Atheism isn't the belief in no god, it is the lack of belief that any god/s exist.
Some atheists are spiritual and others aren't. Those who are spiritual (for example, atheist Buddhists) may consider themselves on a spiritual path. I don't consider myself a spiritual person. We're all different.
2007-08-24 01:05:57 · answer #4 · answered by N 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Great question, fact is I personally don't care for the term Atheism simply because the very use of it suggest that there something not to believe in.
2007-08-24 01:09:20 · answer #5 · answered by William B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not across the spectrum, no, but some atheists...and I am one...approach life with a certain 'spiritual' vein. In my case it manifests itself as vegetarianism, globalism, nature, animals, humanism, pacifism, and fidelity to and love for my wife. But it seems to me that it is absurd to wrap my short life in believing that our planet, our solar system, our star, our galaxy and the other trillions of galaxies in each of which are trillions of stars were 'created' by the tribal god of a band of murdering desert nomads in the Bronze Age. Though I haven't lived in my native state, Georgia, in a coon's age, if I may, I'll speak a bit of Georgian to you; there ain't no such critter.
2007-08-24 01:20:34 · answer #6 · answered by Yank 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. I think the term atheism is not believing in deities.
I think people confuse the prefix a- with anti-
I am not an anti theist. I just don't believe in the fairy tales. I do love lord of the rings though, but I am not stupid enough to believe it happened.
2007-08-24 01:06:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it wouldn't.
A Spiritual Path is a path of Knowledge, not beliefs accepted as knowledge by faith.
2007-08-24 01:39:36 · answer #8 · answered by Champion of Knowledge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes , in so far as it enables you to concentrate on human beings rather than gods and demons.
2007-08-24 02:16:19 · answer #9 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
everyone has a spiritual path, even if it ends at no god. atheism does not imply aspirituality.
2007-08-24 01:06:02 · answer #10 · answered by . 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋