When it's time to lift the spirits

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Many Australians have abandoned the church but are also left cold by atheism. The third way is 'spirituality', writes Rachel Browne.

Judith Lucy lost her religion more than two decades ago.

Raised Catholic, at 12 she considered becoming a nun, before finding enlightenment in the more earthly pleasures of sex and alcohol.

It took the deaths of her adoptive parents, Ann and Tony, for Lucy to reconsider her position.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/when-its-time-to-lift-the-spirits-20110716-1hivc.html#ixzz1SIzeQxUN

[Humanist_Activist]

1. I hate articles like this, you can tell the people writing them really are ignorant of a lot...

of what is considered spirituality and religion. At best they have a superficial understanding and it shows. First by saying that "Spirituality" is a "third way" between traditional religion and atheism. Uhm, how does that explain spiritual people who are atheists, did they take a fourth way, or did this guy just take a left turn and dive off a cliff with his article?

And the atheist interviewed is even worse, of course he wants to say that atheists are that way because they value rationality over superstition, but frankly this isn't universally true. He's as irritating in his own way about saying what atheists believe as religious people who try to say what atheists believe.

All atheists only have one thing in common among them, world wide, they lack a belief in gods. Other than that, they have no other agreed upon beliefs, and indeed don't need to. Its like theists, all they agree on is that god(s) exists, but among theists the beliefs vary, from worshiping many gods, the universe as a god, one god, or billions of gods, seriously, can you say that you can pigeonhole theists like atheists are pigeonholed all the time?