Reply To: Spiritual atheist.
I think a lot of atheists object to the word “spiritual” because it often comes freighted with a lot of woo (like @Davis illustrated in his second example). I don’t experience that, but I’ve learned that the word is so nebulous that it means different things to different people, and I know that as used in the video I posted, it means something very different from anything having anything to do with woo.
I personally wouldn’t have used the word to describe the mental states described in the video I posted, for many of those reasons–I don’t want the woo-connotations attached to what I have to say.
I try to figure out what a specific individual means by “spiritual” before classifying them as woo-believer who is simply a supernaturalist of a different stripe from a theist.
