[MD] The End of Faith - Spirituality

[Margaret Warren]

Steve - regarding your question to me: > 

> Does this mean you are not an atheist now?

first - thanks for posting this Sam Harris excerpt. 
It's great reading. 

I've been thinking this over for a few days to 
decide how to best answer and because I share 
commonality in my beliefs with what Marsha just
posted about why she is is an athiest and 
with what Sam Harris wrote - which seems to imply
not being an athiest -

How do you define 'atheism'? If you or a group's 
definition has already been posted - sorry to 
have missed it. 

I think it's funny that science has become an 'ism'. 



mm


> One reason that I have had negative associations with atheism is
> because I see atheists as rejecting spirituality in favor of  
> scientism. This is a stereotype of course, and it doesn't apply to  
> all atheists, nor does it apply to Sam Harris.
> 
> I found this speech where Sam Harris explains religious
> experience to  
> a bunch of atheists at an atheist convention interesting. He 
> explains  
> mysticism in a very rational way. I'd be interested in your thoughts  
> on this excerpt from his speech "The Problem With Atheism":
> 
> http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/sam_harris/2007/10/
> the_problem_with_atheism.html
> 

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