Quote:Larry King: Do you believe in God? Stephen Hawking: Yes, if by God is meant the embodiment of the laws of the universe.
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Larry King Live, December 25, 1999
"We are not humans having spiritual experiences the universe is one big spirit having individual human experiences."
-Contagion
Why would you want to define your religious perspective by what it is not? Sure you are without theism, but what takes it's place?
The religious or spiritual experience is an important part of the experience of being human.
Remember that time when you were completely struck with awe, dumbfounded and speechless.
If you had to call one of the experiences in your life a "spiritual experience" what would that experience be?
Quote:A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.
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Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
I have a vision of Memetic engineers designing a whole series of religions refined and adapted to be increasingly contagious. The Church of Virus is great for "Atheists", but that is preaching to the choir. The medium is the message boys. Resistance to an idea is the product of the medium.
Mimicry is a powerful part of any infection strategy
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