The anti-spirituality website

antispirituality.info

Many will be surprised: how is it possible to claim to be antispiritual, moreover in a very thoughtful and constructive way that altogether fully honors the quest for truth and understanding, the sense of mission of man on earth, the absolute (transcendent) reality of the morality imperatives towards other living beings, and the existence of afterlife and of the supernatural with its connected axioms (immateriality and immortality of the soul)?
Despite what all those followers of the alleged "evangelical simplicity" may pretend, the truth is complex and can not be plainly described and understood without some minimum effort. The reasons to oppose spirituality are quite complex, and require some effort to understand. So please, don't judge the title before you read and understood the justifications.

Spirituality is a mess of mistakes, and this site exposes reasons to reject most of the traditional "spiritual teachings" on a methodological level.
The point here is to discard all the usual practical developments about « spiritual ways » to think and live (in other words, the whole Spirit of Spirituality carried by most of the particular Spiritual teachings, that largely influences the dominant mentality of today's world), by analyzing the many errors they contain through their methodological biases, their ignorance of many realities, and the practical, relational and social collateral damages, that result from the options they lead their followers to follow during their lives (especially the damages to the lives of those the spiritual people relate to -- and also of those they don't -- in ways they remain methodologically unaware of). Based on these facts I have to conclude by recognizing the absolute practical superiority of reason, scientific methodology and future technologies, over anything that may pretend to do better, be above or go beyond them, as concerns both the search for truth on whatever subject (i.e. not including fields like music that are rigourously not a matter of truth) and the virtue of contributing to making the world a better place to live in, in the context of this earthly life.

What is Spirituality

Examples of serious ideological biases which are more or less common in some spiritualities
An important and general type of error is essentialism

Analysis of some specific spiritualities: Christianity - Neale Donald Walsch's Conversations with God

How the most essential truths on the very issues spiritualities pretend to enlighten on, are kept ignored and unthinkable by them

Please go to find and show me a spirituality that would either respect the following truths and understandings, or have any better grounds to diverge from them than by stupidly having never heard of them and doing as if they (or the arguments supporting them) never existed [partial list translated from French, that refers to complementary texts not all translated into English]:

to discern the origins of evil and how to cure them; in particular, to seek primarily to spread virtue in the hearts of computers;
to cleanse the soul of man from his really perverse thoughts; rather than to make the traditional spiritual exercise of cleansing your soul from all what is good, what is sane, what is virtuous, what is natural, unavoidable or unsignificant, for the mere pleasure of showing how strongly spiritual you are exercizing your holiness and spiritual dedication to cleansing your soul;
to not make a cult to the violent social paralysis
to not spread false dreams about fate: to recognize the real existence of randomness in events, and therefore the real absurdity and absence of deep purpose of so many misfortunes, and the factual rigorous proof that there does not exist such a thing as a divine inspiration (i.e. an effective reception of wisdom or information from any clever benevolent spirit) on this planet (at least not in recent times)
to fully respect the sufferings and complaints of singles and not keep them artifically deprived of love; to complete one's deep understanding of the nature of the most intimate aspirations and sufferings of human heart, by the recognition of the humanitarian emergency to establish a free, universal and most efficient possible online dating system;
To properly compare money and love;
To work to build a civilization, refraining from any utopianism but respecting the role of the invisible hand.

But then, if spirituality is necessarily a sham, what can be found in life to be authentic?

(to be continued)
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Author: Sylvain Poirier