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Sazerac · 10-24-2002, 01:43 PM

A curiosity: how much of this is not about athiesm, but about whether a person adheres to organized religion?

I happen to be a highly spiritual person. I also have disdained organized religion as being unnecessary for my spiritual practices. Would I be considered "athiest" for that?

To my mind, organized religion is like organized crime or organized labor. The reason that those institutions are organized are not for the benefit of the individual, or at the very least, rarely so.

-Sazerac

10-24-2002, 01:43 PM	#10
Sazerac Ironworks Moderator Join Date: January 7, 2001 Location: Monroe, LA Age: 60 Posts: 7,387	A curiosity: how much of this is not about athiesm, but about whether a person adheres to organized religion? I happen to be a highly spiritual person. I also have disdained organized religion as being unnecessary for my spiritual practices. Would I be considered "athiest" for that? To my mind, organized religion is like organized crime or organized labor. The reason that those institutions are organized are not for the benefit of the individual, or at the very least, rarely so. -Sazerac __________________ "And all my days are trances, and all my nightly dreams, Are where thy grey eye glances, and where thy footstep gleams, In what ethereal dances, by what eternal streams..."