The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #100330   Message #2032050
Posted By: Amos
21-Apr-07 - 01:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: New things about atheism
Subject: RE: BS: New things about atheism
Well, perhaps so, Frank. But an absence of all consideration of the spiritual side of things leaves you in a Camusian existential rut, sometimes. I think there is an inherent human need to plumb the mysteries of the viewpoint that is more than the body, that has a certain timelessness and meta-nature to it. If you don't like the word spiritual, which I can well understand given the amount of Victorian baggage it has been laden with, try some other word that describes where you go when your imagination catches fire.


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