Reply #36: I disagree with and am insulted by your premise

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It is impossible to deny that there is a spiritual or supernatural (in the narrow sense of that word) element to human existence

this statement is not true and demeans my beliefs. Lucky for you I am not a christ-worshipping tattle tale or I'd be "alert-alerting" with mopaul about now.


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PeteNYC, I love your posts, including this one. They are thoughtful, intelligent and very thought provoking. I do seriously disagree with the above premise though. It does not follow that because there are things we can't explain that these things are therefore spiritual. There is no evidence that such a thing as a "spirit" exists. Furthermore, "supernatural" is a fuzzy term. These unexplained phenomena may be perfectly ordinary and "natural," but we just don't understand ordinary nature yet. Immediately resorting to a hypothetical deity or unobservable state of being to explain these is not justified.



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