How can somebody New Age be similar to somebody non-spiritual?
I know what Agnosticism means, and I know there is also a deeprooted agnostic philosophy. However, by general definition, "not caring about God/ wether there is a god" is also considered "agnostic". In any case I am sure you will find no animal that says "there is no god", which would be the prerequisite for being atheist, because animals have no conception of god at all.
However, that discussion is idle and useless. Having a religious belief just so to differ from animals seems a bit nonsensical to me. I know I differ from animals, and that is good enough for me.
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However, my spiritual belief is one inherited and evolved through ages, since my ancestors started to wonder about the existance of a supreme being until their defining of this supreme being identity in cultural terms, through all the cultural and spiritual evolution process.
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And yet that tradition started with somebody breaking the previous medeival tradition of beliving unquestioningly in God (wetehr the medeival Christians really did so is anotehr question, but is was the publcially proclaimed norm)...
Besides - ah, let's say so: Religion is about truth. Each religion proclaism an own "truth". Now, I do think there is one, objective reality, so that means almost all or indeed all religions are untrue. But that is a matter for another discussion. What I want to say is, every religion presents what they believe is the truth. You enter a religion because youa ccept that version of truth. It is, or should ideally be, the result a process of own thought and decision.
Thus to say one holds to a belief simply because the ancestors did is IMO somewhat wrong. Everybody should think about the issue on himself, and if need to be digres radically from what his parents and ancestro sthought to be the truth. If that is the result of his or her musings, well, then that is the only consequence. So what if one belief is held for centuresß YOu might as well sa "it was so yestedray". It is meaningless.