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For Me, Spirituality Includes The Belief In Things Larger Than Ourselves, An Appreciation Of Nature And Beauty, A Sensitivity To The World, A Feeling Of Shared Connection With Other Living Things, A Desire To Help People Less Fortunate Than Ourselves. All Of These Things Can Occur With Or Without God. I Do Not Believe In The Existence Of God, But I Consider Myself A Spiritual Person In The Manner I Have Just Described. I Call Myself A Spiritual Atheist. I Would Imagine That Many People Are Spiritual Atheists.

-but Rational Thoughts Lead Only To Rational Thoughts, Whereas Irrational Thoughts Lead To New Experiences.

We Live In A Highly Polarized Society. We Need To Try To Understand Each Other In Respectful Ways. To That End, I Believe That We Should Make Room For Both Spiritual Atheists And Thinking Believers.

It's The Platonic Philosophy In The Republic That Philosophers Should Lead The Country.

Except For A God Who Sits Down After The Universe Begins, All Other Gods Conflict With The Assumptions Of Science.