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A personal reflection on why I call myself a Spiritual Atheist, why the distinction matters, and how the term itself was born from a teenager's refusal to fully identify with either traditional Theism or traditional Atheism; which in order to have meaning, must necessarily be based on a consistent interpretation of what the term God refers to. This is critical!

Spiritual Atheism isn't a religion or a specific philosophy — it's a classification for those who explicitly don't believe in a literal interpretation of God; yet still recognize themselves as spiritual, grounded in truth, wisdom, and love with a deep connection to the infinite and eternal mystery that is existence itself. Are you also a Spiritual Atheist? We are many.

"As long as the critical majority (innocently) mistakes 'God', the mythical/symbolic personification/representation of the universe itself, for something that supposedly exists outside of the universe (the external creator and ruler of the universe); I have no ethical choice but to declare myself to be a spiritual atheist (and equally a non-literal theist) who is aware of the intrinsic connectedness, wholeness, and oneness of the universe, which is indeed mystical." -Soren Sorensen