>I've always described myself as an atheist by birthright, and the
>immense amount of Christian and other "spiritual" material to which any
>student of renaissance & 18th-c literature is exposed never for a minute
>led me to reconsider that birthright. "Spirituality" baffles me -- and
>the most likely explanation for its continued grip on so many seems to
>me to be that it is at bottom spoiled solidarity. Even as an empty
>verbal formula it tends to dry up and blow away within a mass movement,
>then flourish again in when mass struggle declines.
Religion isn't a mass movement?
Doug