Yes it is. I am more with @BlueGoat on this even though I believe in God. The “spiritual” has to be contained within the reality as it is. Otherwise it is an exercise in semantics. One cannot describe The Everything anymore than one can describe a void. Atheists err in believing a negative without evidence. Or, put differently, absence of “evidence” (the kind for which they are looking) is not evidence of absence. An atheist has no reason to believe there is nothing. But @BlueGoat’s arguments strike me as agnostic, not atheistic. And the deepest agnosticism is a path to God IMO. View quoted note →

It seems some envision Christ as the door guy at the heaven club. You needed to have the secret password or the accumulated status via demonstrated fealty to gain admission. I reject this formulation. It is not a serious theology. The kingdom of heaven must necessarily lie within.

I am not a Christian but I am pretty sure the real Christ wouldn’t want you to follow Him to receive a reward (heaven) or to avoid a punishment (hell). The heaven must be in the following and the hell must be in the rejection itself. Otherwise, Christianity would just be another game. I say this only because I respect Christianity as a genuine path to God. I am not a Christian because I don’t think it is the ONLY path. But I believe there are real Christians who are following a real path, even if they are a small minority of those who claim to be such.

Won the men's Padel tournament today. Granted they paired me with Boris Becker (German guy who was good). But it validates my decision not to transition.