SPIRITUALITY IS FAR BETTER THAN RELIGION

A spirit is a thought or an emotion

A religion is a binding faith to an organized set of beliefs or to a religious organization.

SPIRITUALITY CAN INTEGRATE ALL HUMAN BEINGS INTO ONE WHOLE HUMANITY.

RELIGION SEPARATES US INTO GROUPS OR SECTS.

A god is a spirit.

A spirit may insist in one's mind; but no spirit can ever exist in reality.

THE TWO GREATEST SPIRITS ARE CARE AND LOVE.

A benevolently spiritual person may care very deeply about oneself
and also care very much about ALL other human beings.

To care about and to have love for ALL human beings is to be humane.

THUS, A BENEVOLENTLY SPIRITUAL PERSON IS A CARING, LOVING, AND LOVABLE, HUMANE BEING.

WHY THEISM IS DECLINING

Knowledge about the physical world has buried almost all the gods.

Nothing is different about Jesus or Christianity.

The process of science overcomes our natural tendencies to believe in myths and superstition and replaces dogma with knowledge that works.

We need to bury God to produce a better moral and ethical world.

We must openly call out lies and distortions. We should foster open questioning (and refutation by others) with no false claims of certainty.

Burying God is NOT a bad thing because science provides compensations in return with more accurate thinking--the universal invitation to question anyone's claims and the universal requirement to exercise due diligence and a duty of care to substantiate those claims.
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SOURCE: Professor Lawrence Krauss

SCIENCE, MATH, ART, REASONING, PERCEIVING, THINKING

Science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

Mathematics seeks to use logic to understand and often prove relationships between quantities and objects which may relate to no real phenomena.

Art is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination.

Reasoning is the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way.

Inductive reasoning is a logical process in which multiple premises, all believed true or found true most of the time, are combined to obtain a specific conclusion of probability.

Deductive reasoning is a logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true.

Abductive reasoning (also called abduction, abductive inference, or retroduction) is formulating an inference based upon imagination. In abductive reasoning, unlike in deductive reasoning, the premises do not guarantee the conclusion.

Formal Logic is reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity.

Perceive is to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses.

The senses are any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body.

Nonsense is anything that has not been and cannot be observed by one or more of the senses.

Thinking is the process of using one's mind to consider or reason or imagine something.

To imagine is to form a mental image or concept.

Verifiable is that which may be perceived with one or more of the senses.

TO COMPLETE YOU MUST START

A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES BEGINS WITH A SINGLE STEP. ~ Lao Tzu

Big things start from small beginnings. And, in order to accomplish ANYTHING,
one has to TAKE THE FIST STEP and then PERSIST UNTIL THE JOURNEY (OR TASK) IS COMPLETE.

START BY GETTING ALL OF THE INFORMATION REQUIRED TO EFFICIENTLY COMPLETE THE TASK OR JOURNEY--INCLUDING THE BEST DIRECTIONS YOU CAN GET--THEN PERSISTENTLY FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS (UNLESS THERE IS A NECESSITY FOR DETOURING OR AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE THE PLAN) UNTIL THE JOURNEY OR TASK IS COMPLETE.