re: #213 researchok

To you it doesn’t differ from an emotional state. For billions of others, it does.

No, it doesn’t. They may believe it does. That doesn’t change the actual nature of it.

I believe that spirituality is more than an emotion, if for no other reason than emotions are transitory, They can recur, but they are transitory. Spirituality is also a testament to fidelity and commitment.

Okay. “Emotional state” isn’t complex enough to describe it.

That is why I also believe in the spiritual aspects of love. We speak of ;soul mates’ and ‘intended’ and ‘other halves’ precisely because real love transcends transitory emotions.

Exactly. I believe in love. I’m an atheist. Ergo, spirituality. I don’t believe that I love my wife because chemicals in my brain go ‘bing’ in the right way, I believe love has meaning in and of itself. That’s spirituality.