Spirituality for Atheists: A Natural Theology

This book follows on where ‘The Self Help Delusion’ left off. It takes the same format with the thoughts, beliefs and attitudes suggested in that book and builds a hierarchy of beliefs around our spiritual existence; about death and eternity.Everything is defined in the light of the reality of events in this world in combination with the scientific ‘truths’ about time, matter, energy, multiple- dimensions, eternity and infinity as science currently believes them to be.Traditional religions have separated not united mankind. They have set irrational belief against irrational belief. The traditional fear-bound religions have not done what they say on the tin, and show no sign of ever doing.What singles this book out from others in the spiritual genre is the basic premise that nothing in it is ‘true’. But then, little is ‘true’ in any writings about spiritual matters, it’s just that the writer thinks it is.This book takes the emotion out of spirituality. Religions use emotion to their own ends. They create guilt, unworthiness, fear, division, exclusivity, anger even. They use ritual and chanting to weaken the mind - hypnosis really - and then present their slant to the vulnerable unconscious, and have you be grateful that they are telling you the way it ‘really’ is.This is a book based around an awareness of the reality of life and the reality of being human. Ultimately, in the end, if you are not making it up yourself, you are taking your lead from someone else who has made it up.Approached with an open mind, it will provide you with a believable, realistic, loving, and self-enhancing spiritual alternative to traditional religion.