Reply To: Spiritual atheist.
When someone is spiritual they are emotional about something like for example how most Christians feel a connection to there bible might just be them feeling emotional about it.
Absolutely. Faith and belief are very emotional fundamentally – and science is factual. They seem to appeal to different parts of the brain. When an atheist feels awe at the size and majesty of the universe, they are not appending a sense of self-worthlessness to it (the “we are all sinners” thing), and I think that kind of rarifies the experience for us.
