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cbayer

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8. I know what you mean. It's seems very vague.

Reply to Smarmie Doofus (Reply #7)

Sun May 24, 2015, 10:06 AM

May 2015

She seems to be talking about a belief in a higher power without the religious trappings. Maybe a better title would have been, Can't we please get religion out of god (as another member in another thread suggests).

It's difficult to know how to categorize people when it comes to religion these days, which is why it may be very important to let people simply categorize themselves.

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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