This old chestnut, again

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The people who wrote the Bible didn’t understand where the “sky, the earth and themselves came from, they invented Gods who created them”
Are they the “early man” your referring to?
Just my opinion but any religion is the antithesis of spirit and spirituality. Whatever spirit is, supposing it exists, it cannot be put in a box created by corporeal man.

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No, it isn't. Psychology is the study of the psyche, which itself relates to the sense of self, of conscious personality, of spirit. This has its roots deeper than your chosen religion. (Going back to the early Greeks).

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You just happen to call the “sense of self” etc. a "soul" because that's how your religion frames it.

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Well it’s probably that complicated. Many committed Christians are also committed scientists so I think it’s s bit harsh that you cannot be a committed atheist and commit to a spiritual belief out-with the need for a head honcho god spirit.
Do you believe that you cannot believe in a spiritual dimension, be spiritual, or discuss different options for a spiritual existence without believing in a god or gods?
Atheism is a belief in the non existence of god or gods period.

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Psychology is the study of the psyche, which itself relates to the sense of self, of consciousness. In a religious context you may explain this as the soul, whereas in the context I describe it is the spirit, the inner spark. I fully accept it is not the spirit wrapped in religious dogma, but is spirit nonetheless.

Meditation and mindfulness, for example, are spiritual in the way they focus on the sense of self, of inner consciousness and awareness.

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You misunderstood. At no point have I appealed to any ethereal notions. You have simply been unable to untangle yourself from such notions due to being a theist.

Humans are spiritual without anything supernatural being brought to the table.

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Only through the eyes of a theist.

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Again, psychology is to do with the psyche.

'Psyche comes from the Greek psykhe, which means “the soul, mind, spirit, or invisible animating entity which occupies the physical body.'


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