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3. What do you think of this author's focus on spirituality?

Sun May 24, 2015, 08:56 AM

May 2015

Thomas Paine seemed to imbue nature with spirituality, but it's not clear what he means by that.

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Can We Please Get God Out of Religion? [View all] cbayer May 2015 OP

Thomas Paine did that a long time ago. Smarmie Doofus May 2015 #1

What do you think of this author's focus on spirituality? cbayer May 2015 #3

Frankly, it's not clear to me what ANYONE means by spirituality. Smarmie Doofus May 2015 #7

I know what you mean. It's seems very vague. cbayer May 2015 #8

Lost me at this: "We all need a spiritual side." trotsky May 2015 #2

"to believe in something greater and more powerful than themselves" - a country? muriel_volestrangler May 2015 #4

I'm pretty sure she is referring to something other than a human cbayer May 2015 #6

What a pile of empty rhetoric Yorktown May 2015 #5

Jumps the shark in the first sentence. AtheistCrusader May 2015 #9

Jumping the shark would imply that it made no sense for anyone. cbayer May 2015 #10

I do not think it means what you think it means. AtheistCrusader May 2015 #11

I always thought that it was the point at which something took cbayer May 2015 #12

Message auto-removed Name removed May 2015 #13