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This is a question for Big Joe mostly. In my city there are about 25 mosques: http://www.salatomatic.com/sub/Canada/Alberta/Edmonton/w3NnWVwH2C How come so many? I realise that one reason would simply be geography within the city and size of the community. Obviously people don't really want...

I knew that. It's all good. You missed my attempt at humour though. No big deal.

Hey, anybody can say anything. That's one of the most basic tenets of reading between the lines. Whether or not they speak the truth is another matter altogether. Verily verily verily, life is but a dream.

Since 'none' is the fastest growing faith group, you might be correct. http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2015/05/12/3657691/fastest-growing-group-americans-dont-identify-particular-religion/

Verily. Even in that there is substantial difference, as some people just assume we're talking about the same thing, while others are chronically thinking we're not. Take the term 'God' for instance.

This site actually works better than most, for me. What browser are you using? In the past I've had challenges with differing browsers. (I use firefox).

I don't understand the last part at all, but as for intuitive versus cognitive, because some people understand intuition differently than others, the ones who see it as having a cognitive bias, are probably correct, according to their view of it. My version of intuition operates outside of...

Or maybe neither. Maybe God extended himself, and one of the consequences was man.

I once heard it taken to another more simplistic notion that I liked that made sense: A 'spiritual' person is one who can lift the spirits of others.

That rings incredibly true. We have this little group of scholarly types in academia that go on and on in debate, write books, discuss, give lectures, but a are basically ignored by the masses, who are too busy worshiping God(s) to listen to some boring lecture. There's a bit of 'delusions of...

religion ... Hindu, Saivite, monistic Saiva Siddhanta, Nandinatha sampradaya, Kailasa parampara 1) Karma, reincarnation, divinity within all, God is formless, and with form 2) same as 1 I guess 3) puja, japa, 16 samskaras 4) individual heads of sampradayas (esoteric schools) 5) love them all...

Thanks ... wasn't sure there for a minute. Very difficult to explain the vastness of Hinduism some days, really hard with Hindus themselves. Even arguably the most monotheistic school within Hinduism, the Gaudiya Vaishnavas (Krishna is all) go on about demi-gods sometimes. Sounds contradictory...

One priest, one take, A hundred priests, a hundred takes,

For me, 'spirituality' the word means absolutely nothing. It's a vague catch-all phrase that gets tossed around a lot, and I suspect means something different to each person using it, with many not really knowing what it even means to them. I've even asked people, 'What exactly does that mean?"...

Understandings will vary, indeed. The point in interfaith is to allow for that without emotional attachment to other views differing from your own. That's why most of us preface stuff with 'in my opinion'. In this case, I believe it's really in the difference of definition about what exactly is...

By that view, we're nearly all atheists then, as very few individuals have experienced God. Of course, many people think they have, and will tell you as much. This soul, as a Hindu mystic, makes a huge distinction between belief in God, and experiencing God. But back to the OP, I think the...

Thanks for the clarification. From my POV, classification (at a more elementary level, its called 'grouping')is just a part of the natural subconscious mind that comes naturally to simplify our thinking. A way to organise thoughts. I think we all know it's more complicated.

I don't want to be stuck in an elevator with any yapper, regardless of religious or political persuasion.

If you mean 4 kinds of atheists, 2 of the categories in the chart were theists. Not sure what you meant.

Thanks, A Cup of Tea, for this. I was trying to come up with something that showed the range. No religious definition is simple, and atheism is no exception. I'd just like to add that there is wide variation on how vocal atheists are. Some just keep quiet, while others let everyone know. There...