Calling all atheists and believers

I like what you said, john.doe, regarding that there’s still so much to know and explore for this whole “spirituality” thing. “unnameable, unexplored thoroughly, mysterious”..you name it.
And I am for one personally grateful that there seems to be a more “objective” and more-rational and ‘whole’ approach to seek, research, and explore this mystery in our very recent times/era. eg: things like meditation, New-Age, merging of Eastern-and-Western spirituality, a more rational re-construction and exploration of past known religions, and finding the *underlying* theme of ALL religions, mystics, beliefs, and spirituality from all around the world. Not to mention the emerging (& also quite interesting!) terms like: Indigo, Starseeds, Crystal children, and Lightworkers (just do google to each of this term, and you might be surprised).

With all these said, I am now personally a sort of ‘mix’ between being an Agnostic, Pantheist, Deist, and even still able to wholly respect the CORE of all major religion teachings like Christianity (I am a Christian myself, and now, see myself as more ‘enlightened/whole’ Christian, so to speak), Islam, Buddhism, etc.

Notice however that I’m saying the *CORE* teachings of religions, not the dogmas and little intricate details that often unfortunately & sadly causes the all the clashes, hatred, judgmental, and wars between the followers of these religions all around the world! which in my humble opinion, is NOT even necessary, if only these people can see the true, real ESSENCE (again, CORE) of these religions!
In fact, I would boldly wager that ALL religions are basically the SAME in its core-teachings, and therefore, needs to be more EXPLORED the ‘mystery of spirituality’, departing from THIS ‘whole, coherent’ point of spirituality. Instead of caring too much on all the often confusing, unnecessary, and even perhaps meaningless man-made dogmas and little-detail doctrines.

Again, like john.doe said well above, I also firmly believe that there’s soo much MORE for us human beings to really, really explore about the “what” and perhaps more importantly “WHY” most (if not all) humans have such a very strong, high needs of “spirituality”, in one form or another, in their life, which somewhat interestingly *separate* them from other multitudes of species on our blue Planet.

This, I believe, is the REAL quest of ‘Spirituality’, and ‘God’ (whatever that is or would be).
It is such a very, very unfortunate, sad, and pity though, to see how us human beings species have wasted sooo MUCH energy, our unique intelligences, resources etc to find the MISTAKES and judge and FIGHT each other (in the name of religion/God, etc),…rather than use ALL of those beloved, beautiful energy & power of ours to ALL TOGETHER start exploring more deeply of the underlying *What* and *WHY* of the mysterious thing called spirituality, and our seemingly needs/deep-longing search of “GOD”.

Only with such right start, I believe, humanity can really progress a whole lot, even perhaps exponentially, and might perhaps find much more interesting NEW things during their combined quest in spirituality!
Not through judgements, small minds, finding errors, hatreds, fighting each other, and meaningless wars.

That is beautiful, Shelly, ie: “we’re all children of stars”.
It’s in line with what Carl Sagan said: “We are star stuff, harvesting starlight”

This, itself, is already full of mystery & wonderment, that sadly &
unfortunately many theists seem to ‘push’ their views and judge atheism as “sorrowful life with lack of Meaning and Purpose”, while ironically and quite funnily, it’s sometimes the reverse that seems to be ‘lost’ and frantically grappling and screaming out the unnecessaries.