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Originally Posted by Namaste  An interesting choice of words there. Unnecessary for what?
Spirituality is one of the ways to deal with inner conflict. |
Unnecessary for anything. When you say "one of the ways", you automatically concede that it's not necessary.
Something is necessary--I'm not arguing that, though I'm not agreeing with it either; we haven't discussed it--but that something is not necessarily spirituality.
For instance, we might say that sustenance is necessary for life. And what you're saying, in a sense, is that potatoes are necessary for life, whereas people may easily have nutritious meals without potatoes.
As such, things such as existential anxieties, sense of community, and unnameable names can be fulfilled without spirituality. In a sense, you could say that spirituality is only one of many possible roads. This in no way says "Spirituality bad!", but it does say that "Must have spirituality" is an erroneous claim.