Reply To: Reeling from Christian friend's bigotry

[Simon Paynton]

@SteveInCo: “… why you persist in using the word “mystical” for it.” – because if you read religious writings, this is what they’re talking about when they say “God’s love” or “Divine mercy” or “streams of living water” etc. Also, this is what they have faith in. So it’s a very important idea. So far, poorly understood.

“the essence of mysticism.” – what do you think is the essence of mysticism?

@Davis – it’s more solid than feel-good gooeyness. It’s a function of evolution, and evolution is one of atheism’s favourite things.

“There is no atheist-morality.” – haven’t we just spent 6 months arguing that there is? That atheists are just as moral as religious people? On the other hand, nobody’s come up with much in the way of formality, and if they have, it’s remarkably absent from the public scene.