Reply To: Reeling from Christian friend's bigotry

[Simon Paynton]

My point number 1 is that if you nurture yourself, you thrive, because evolution, our nature, predisposes us that way. (The raw form of the idea, since it can be selfish.)

My point number 2 is that if you nurture other people, they thrive too. (the moral form of the idea, which is unselfish.)

Together with the concept of truth, awareness of reality, they consitute the basis of an atheist mysticism. Simple, but very profound. I call it mystical because it’s the traditional domain of mysticism, and also because nobody seems to get it.