Crazy⑧s;158435 said:
Personally, I can't see what's more spiritually uplifting than being interlinked with every infinitesimal part of something as amazing as the universe.
If there are any rules to be applied, IMO, the most outstanding is to be a protecter of this one, great amalgamation of life! It was/is/continues to be everything.
If you listen to video #2, you hear a woman say that science is the mind of God. This is a huge abstraction, like that of much of spirituality, which is great. That's deep! I try to urge atheists to think like her: immerse themselves in finding meaning in science or "reality," independent of antagonism toward religion. However, this all still requires abstraction: it is just how our mind works.
Unfortunately, many atheists I have met find meaning in being antagonistic toward religion. This makes them suffer: frustration, wanting to control others, by changing them, etc., needlessly. One cannot avoid suffering, if being antagonistic. I think we can propose our ideas, but we must respect others [in the process] and even be ready to see some beauty in their beliefs.
And religion is not just about people pseudo-scientifically explaining the world to themselves, though many foolishly do. I know that religion does not, in many instances, tell me about the physical world. Many others realize this. We love these figures and books for much deeper, non-scientific reasons. This is why people will always have faith.
For example, to me, spirituality, learning about, and from, The Buddha, Jesus, Krishna (Hinduism), Mahavir (Jainism), Nanak (Sikhism), Lao Tzu (Taoism), the various Saints [from amongst the religions], is about the very practical teachings they blessed us with. They tell us how we can be happy, right now (not in heaven or paradise), how to overcome suffering, how to be compassionate, how to find the shame that brings our egotistical fortresses tumbling down, and, most importantly, how to truly love.
Found in both theism and atheism, it is the icy, neglected, mechanical heart that has been the perpetual foe of inner progress. We are not empirical machines.