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Old April 4th, 2004, 10:14 PM
Vic Sagerquist
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One day in alt.atheism, Also Sprach The Rev Optional:

www.dictionary.com


Since you are either too lazy or stupid to copy and paste a definition for
discussion, here it is.

1. The state, quality, manner, or fact of being spiritual.
2. The clergy.
3. Something, such as property or revenue, that belongs to the church or to
a cleric. Often used in the plural.

#1 is as informative as defining atheism as the quality, manner, or fact of
being an atheist.

#2 is incomplete.

#3 is wrong.

Merriam-Webster adds:
"sensitivity or attachment to religious values"

Still uninformative.

Let's try spiritual:

Here's an interesting twist. "of or relating to supernatural beings or
phenomena".

So spirituality seems to only exist within the clergy or church or dogma.
With the exception of references to material values and (of course) money,
I see no connection to reality here. Do you?

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Vic Sagerquist
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Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day.
Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

--Timothy Jones