Reply To: Spiritual atheist.
@earthheart, “spiritual” is one of those terms that people use freely without defining what they mean by it. The two examples you have given seem like they are talking about experiences being emotional rather than spiritual. In which case the question would be “Can an atheist be emotional?”. To which the answer is obviously yes.
Would you be able to define what you mean by spiritual and that will help clarify the discussion.
P.S. Just as I posted this I saw the reply from @simonpaynton. I admire his efforts on his website as what he is doing is not an easy thing. It is easy to criticise and say nothing is clearly defined but much harder to actually try to define terms clearly and accurately. As you have brought up the word spiritual in your post I would be interested in your definition.
