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Originally Posted by FlicksTracey
What you see or not is irrelevant
While this is true, it's also irrelevant. People drop in all the time with single-sentence comments that are wrong, and my interjection of a question doesn't necessarily impact that. But someone came in and made a claim without any justification, and so it seems ripe for an intellectual challenge.
For example, one can conceive of a folk religion that has a form of ancestral worship without positing the existence of a god. Or one can accept the existence of spiritual beings without an ultimate spiritual being (or collection of "higher ranking spiritual beings" that function in the role of a god.
There are also forms of "spiritualism" that do not claim anything about a god but grant for the possibility of spirits. Specifically, there's such a thing as "spiritual atheism." The only statement that's accepted is that if spirits exist that they exist within the universe and not as some type of supreme being.
So you're right that my observation is irrelevant. But as far as I can tell, it's true, whereas the post I was responding to was false.