• sucius@lemmy.world
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    I’m having a hard time understanding what’s so sophisticated about it. Isn’t it the same with a lot of other religions? I’ve met a lot of people who say they are culturally catholic and participate in the celebrations, etc but are atheists. The same happens with Jewish people.

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      That often means they take part in rituals without having any other beliefs. This is different from that since, in a Western framework, spirituality is often defined by a devotion to a specific God. It can be tough to understand spirituality in the absence of God though that conceptualization has existed for millennia in other cultures.