Stringsinger: "Spirituality is the substitution for a belief in a god. Therefore it is not atheistic.
It assumes an ethereal presence of some sort, undefined and unverifiable."

Ah..but you are consummately wrong. I probably have to find my posts about the MRIs....I'll put in a nutshell....
I posted a link, a while ago, that had a video, where they tested people using MRI. Psychedelics (mushrooms in particular), Music, meditation, and sex, all lit up the frontal lobe of the brain...and though they lit up that area, it doesn't mean they all traveled the same paths...so in essence, that area for all those activities, gave a sense of 'euphoria', however each activity had distinct different sensations. Also tested were atheists. That area of the brain(frontal lobe) did note light up at all. True story.
So for all those who never had a spiritual experience, and then come off and say it is a delusion, you don't know that..unless you have something to compare it with..and you don't....neither can you know what someone has experienced, when they utilize a part of their brain, that you don't. The video goes onto say, that that is a reason why spiritually minded people can't understand why atheists 'don't get it', and the reverse is also true..atheists can't figure out why, or what tangible thing is going on, within people who focus onto their spiritual experience.
That being said, I'm NOT a 'religious fanatic'..I only know what I know, and seen what I've seen, and I'm not up for being told by people who have not experienced that, that it doesn't exist....because, you actually don't know what you are talking about.
Now, if you don't like some of the world's religions, I don't blame you...and that includes what some people pass off as 'Christianity'...and that being said, don't let the bad behavior of some church fanatics, or shallow people, turn you off to being curious about a fuller human experience....because it is real!

GfS