2. Why do you think most people want spirituality/religion in their lives?
People need something to believe in that is greater than themselves.

3. What would you define as spiritual?
Spiritual is to believe in something that exists outside the confines of the human body.

4. Do you believe it’s possible for every religion to have a valid point/belief? (i.e. one that is publicly accepted by the masses)?
It depends on the person. Just because you belong to some organised religion dosent mean you have to believe everything they tell you.

1. Atheistic Discordianism since I was 23.
2. Reasons could include: fear, emotional trauma, indoctrination, coercion at gunpoint, inability to grasp fundamental physics, poor critical analysis skills, stupidity of crowds/”Me Too”-ism/”sheeple” mentality, etc.
3. Delusional state of mind. A fantasy. Ask a psychiatrist or a neurologist. I’ve known people who can get “spiritual” just by indulging in controlled substances.
4. Well, that depends. You could ask that of lots of things and get different answers depending on precisely how you ask it. I know Principia Discordia has lots of valid points.

2. Why do you think most people want spirituality/religion in their lives?
People are naturally afraid of death. So there was an afterlife for the mortophobics. Secondly, the Greeks, who were leaders in science, Could not explain things like lightning, day to night cycles, phases of the moon, and other things, so they invented gods for that(GOD OF THE GAPS). At first, the Romans/Greeks/Babylonians/Persians/ Norse made gods for everything, which was a simplistic view of the One true god that catholics believe in. This god has now been rendered obsolete by everyone intellegent, and anyone who beleives in god because they can’t understand how the universe works is just plain dumb.
Thirdly, humans need for morals, social meetings, and a meaning to life was a big part of the start of all religions. Morals: if you are not taught right from wrong by your parents, your parents are not good ones. Social meetings: Just make and effort to get together! Meaning of life: TO LIVE. Why do you want to live? Because there isn’t anything else to do, now is there?
The Judeo-Christian-Islamic was a combination of a fear of death, a lack of knowledge of the world, and the need for a meaning of life. There was the God of an Afterlife and the God of the gaps(unknown). All of the gods put meaning into life. Those main two gods and last ideal were combined to make the one true god that Judeo-Christian-Islamic believers believe in. Its all bull to me, though.

3. What would you define as spiritual?
Spend a month living in the wild. THAT and THAT alone is spiritual.

4. Do you believe it’s possible for every religion to have a valid point/belief? (i.e. one that is publicly accepted by the masses)?
The ten commandments: All of them are violated in one religion or more, and thats the basis of my arguement and I’m tired, so i wont say anything more.

2. Why do you think most people want spirituality/religion in their lives?
They want something to look forward to when they die. We don’t have a lot of time alive. They want to believe that there is something bigger than them going on and that it will continue after their life on this world ends. They also want to have some kind of supernatural force guiding them, protecting them, and telling them everything will be all right.

3. What would you define as spiritual?
Anything relating to a deity, “life energy” or a similar concept.

4. Do you believe it’s possible for every religion to have a valid point/belief? (ie one that is publicly accepted by the masses)?
Well, yes and no. The main point of many religions is “Please be good people and don’t kill each other.” However, to say that they are entirely true, or to say that they all have a common definition of a ‘good person’, is stretching it. So they may have A point or a few good points, but they are not entirely comprised of good points.

Christianity.

2. Why do you think most people want spirituality/religion in their lives?

One of the most significant reasons that many people are intrigued by, investigate or become involved with religion is that everyone has a “God-shaped hole” (kinda cliched, sorry, but it makes the point) which is not adequately filled by anything else you might try to fill it with. As a Christian who holds to a biblical worldview, that makes sense to me because I hold that we were created and designed to interact and fellowship with God (who is a spiritual being). I do not believe that anyone truly communes with God besides through Christ, and an indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

3. What would you define as spiritual?

That’s a hard question to answer in a brief way. Informally, in humanity’s case, I believe that every single one of our real day-to-day experiences are spiritual, because we are, essentially, spiritual beings. I guess what I’m trying to say is that spiritual existence is something very real, in the same way that the physical world is very real (although I’m not equating the physical with the spiritual). It’s not some airy-fairy other dimension where floating people whiz around and play harps.

4. Do you believe it’s possible for every religion to have a valid point/belief? (ie one that is publicly accepted by the masses)

I will simply say that where two religions hold two contradictory beliefs, I do not believe that they can both be right. Moral/religious/existential relativism is (hopefully!) a passing fad which I don’t no one truly believes in… or even if one The reality is that some people choose to claim that everyone can make up their own truth because they do no not want to be accountable to any other being that may make demands on them which conflicts with their own personal lifestyle choices and beliefs.

I am a free-thinking Presbyterian. I enjoy my church because we often have open debates and let everyone express their own opinions , so I find god to be an individual that wants us to have an open mind.

2. Why do you think most people want spirituality/religion in their lives?

Many people have religion in their lives in order to feel as part of an idea or belief system. It gives them comfort. The people on this site that this place talks about are people who use religion to gain power and authority. These people make me sick, but thankfully, they are a minority. Most people want to help others in their lives through religion, not control.

3. What would you define as spiritual?

I define spiritual as one who feels a believable connection to something that is still unknown. It also means that one is at peace with their inner self.

4. Do you believe it’s possible for every religion to have a valid
point/belief? (ie one that is publicly accepted by the masses)

Absoulutely! Despite the liars and crooks in every Religion, it is possible, if the religion is tweaked slightly, to be a productive part of the community.

Don’t assume that the people that are broadcast on this site speak for all of us, because they don’t. One can have religion and be accepting of others.

If it weren’t sad, it’d be terribly funny.