[extropy-chat] Faculty X

[Dirk Bruere]

Samantha Atkins wrote:

> Yep.  The notion that atheists are missing some faculty is pretty 
> lame.  Personally I am by nature contemplative and mystical AND 
> logical and rational.  I deeply appreciate things on the religious 
> side.  I have had to learn to consciously chose my stance from all 
> these aspects.  I possess more of "faculty x" than many who are active 
> adherents of some religion or other.
>
That may be true, but I'm just using 'atheist' for a catchall to 
describe those who lack any tendency to the mystical or any hint of the 
experience itself.
And religion is wider than simply a belief in a JudeoXian god with all 
the attached baggage.
I often describe myself as an atheist, but that's only because my belief 
in the Gods I follow does not fit into the JC belief framework of 
black/white real/unreal. There are degrees of reality and types of reality.

-- 
Dirk

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