The short answer is 'atheist' but the short answer isn't very interesting. I shall add some sprinkles and whipped cream on the top:
- Seventeen years of Catholic upbringing and schooling; after rejecting that, it's only been in the last couple of years that I've come to a kind of peace with the idea that one can be 'culturally Catholic' without being theistic. (It's not an idea I see very much among Catholics, although it sees common among my Jewish friends.)
- I believe that theism derives from an human tendency to anthropomophise a mind-bogglingly huge and complex universe into something more cognitively manageable. In this, I suppose, I have a lot in common with panthiests.
- My personal spiritual practice is fluid, and vaguely totemic, as anyone who has seen my tattoos will attest. I struggle to find the words to explain this without sounding totally mad, but my deer god and cat goddess are best understood as parts of myself - constructs or archetypes perhaps - through which I process the universe. I find it useful to have guides when I'm meditating and they do the job.
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- Seventeen years of Catholic upbringing and schooling; after rejecting that, it's only been in the last couple of years that I've come to a kind of peace with the idea that one can be 'culturally Catholic' without being theistic. (It's not an idea I see very much among Catholics, although it sees common among my Jewish friends.)
- I believe that theism derives from an human tendency to anthropomophise a mind-bogglingly huge and complex universe into something more cognitively manageable. In this, I suppose, I have a lot in common with panthiests.
- My personal spiritual practice is fluid, and vaguely totemic, as anyone who has seen my tattoos will attest. I struggle to find the words to explain this without sounding totally mad, but my deer god and cat goddess are best understood as parts of myself - constructs or archetypes perhaps - through which I process the universe. I find it useful to have guides when I'm meditating and they do the job.