My Spirituality as an Atheist

Inspired by a conversation with Theo Warner. En Español: www.youtube.com (Thanks to AmazedAtheist) Is there any value in spirituality? As an atheist you may possibly expect me to say no but if I’m getting truthful, I’d have to think about myself a spiritual individual. Of course I’m not talking about some ghostly ethereal soul that lives inside my body. There is no reason to feel there is something like that. I’m talking about the essence of human. There aren’t numerous words in our language that capture what that is. at least for me. And so I use the word spirit, in the same way I use the phrase bless you. For rhetoric’s sake. I can only describe it as the action or ability to see beauty. to feel wonder. and to be in awe. Religion and all groups faith of course serve only to prostitute the awe, and the mystery we all feel as humans. they bottle our essence and try putting lid on the wonder we naturally really feel. They fail of course. Religion points to the man behind the curtain in an try answer the mystery. when in reality, there is no man. the mystery is just that. a mystery. But even though I don’t believe in the supernatural, I attempt to be as honest as I can to myself, about my spirituality. On my trip out west just a couple months ago I keep in mind a moment standing in a field that looked up at the grand tetons. the tetons in wyoming are these huge glacier capped mountains that just cut into the sky. I keep in mind thinking to myself. Some thing significantly better than me must have brought on this. I know it …
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