Twelve Spiritual Freedoms
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The freedom to revel in one's own unique experience of Spirit without having to account to anyone for it.
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The freedom to be completely unattached to whether others appreciate one's own experience of Spirit.
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The freedom to prize and relish what narrow scientism devalues and refuses to acknowledge.
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The freedom to be wary of uninformed arguments that ignore great heaps of scientifically verified fact.
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The freedom to prefer a life of spirituality (from "to blow freely") to one of religion (from "to bind fast").
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The freedom to protest and even fight back when people impose religious or "spiritual" values that are unwelcome.
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The freedom to disregard supernatural claims rooted primarily in fear or willful ignorance.
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The freedom to interpret such claims as premature but definite foreclosures of dialog, and to act accordingly.
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The freedom to reject anyone's demand for special treatment on the grounds of religion just because they choose to feel entitled or marginalized.
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The freedom to uphold a basic and courteous respect for all human beings regardless of their beliefs.
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The freedom to be unremittingly critical of when religious or "spiritual" beliefs or deeds do demonstrable harm to people, including turning them against themselves, or to the other living creatures and landscapes inhabiting the Earth.
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The freedom to imagine a world undivided by religion, free at last of consecrated warfare, misogyny, bigotry, indoctrination, theocracy, millennialism, ecocide, and hatred, and infused throughout from pole to pole with the liberating presence of Spirit.