I sometimes find religious or spiritual concepts useful as abstractions for describing aspects of life in our complex world, but I don't take them literally. I

I sometimes find religious or spiritual concepts useful as abstractions for describing aspects of life in our complex world, but I don't take them literally. I think that my values and motivations are basically those of a spiritual person, and if I lived in some past era I might have become a priest. In the present, though, I am just an atheist who cares a lot about community and social justice.