From New York Magazine- (Andrew Sullivan)
Everyone has a religion. It is, in fact, impossible not to have a religion if you are a human being. It’s in our genes and has expressed itself in every culture, in every age, including our own secularized husk of a society.
By
religion, I mean something quite specific: a practice not a theory; a
way of life that gives meaning, a meaning that cannot really be defended
without recourse to some transcendent value, undying “Truth” or God (or
gods).
Which
is to say, even today’s atheists are expressing an attenuated form of
religion. Their denial of any God is as absolute as others’ faith in
God, and entails just as much a set of values to live by — including,
for some, daily rituals like meditation, a form of prayer. (There’s a
reason, I suspect, that many brilliant atheists, like my friends Bob
Wright and Sam Harris are so influenced by Buddhism and practice
Vipassana meditation and mindfulness. Buddhism’s genius is that it is a
religion without God.)
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