01: Spirituality for Atheists

Soberful

Veronica Valli

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Chip is a life-long committed atheist. Veronica is 'spiritual but not religious.' In this episode, they discuss whether or not you need 'god' to get and stay sober and what spirituality actually means.

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0:00.0	I dreamt that you were twisting through seven sons of gold and the gypsy was insisting
0:10.2	that his story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning
0:19.1	that you might be a treasure.
0:22.4	I could touch but never hold.
0:27.7	Hi, I'm Veronica Valley.
0:29.6	And I'm Chip Summers.
0:31.2	And we are the hosts of the Soberful podcast.
0:33.8	Welcome to our first episode where we are going to be discussing everything and anything to do with getting sober, being in recovery and stuff we've learned from our 50 years, Chip. Can you believe it? 50 years?
0:45.7	Combined recovery.
0:47.1	I know.
0:48.1	Chip has the sort of weightier part of the 50 years.
0:52.1	Yeah.
0:52.5	But I'm coming up on 18 years and Chip's in the 30 something years, 33 years.
0:57.9	Yeah.
0:58.7	So hopefully some of it will even make sense.
1:01.0	So today's topic is spirituality for atheists.
1:06.0	And I thought that this would be an interesting start because it's a subject that comes up a lot. And I've
1:11.2	always thought that Chip had a really interesting take on it. So, Chip, can atheists be spiritual
1:18.1	too? What do you think? I have no problem with this at all. It's a topic that obviously is very
1:23.5	dear to my heart because I am a sort of devout atheist and I'm very passionate about it.
1:31.2	I love the paradox. Yes, in a lot of support groups that are available out there,
1:36.3	there is a lot of emphasis often on God and religion and that is something that was obviously
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