Comment by antonvs
21 hours ago
Equating "care" with "higher power" is a strange hoop to jump through. And if we ask why you want to do that, the answer is religion.
Some of us would like to move on from these primitive superstitions. We can have care, empathy, and "sunshine" without it being contaminated by nonsense.
There are perfectly rational things that qualify as higher powers even if one doesn’t have religious belief. Those vast physical laws, the trajectory of the universe, the grand story of humanity, our quests for understanding.
Rejecting religion doesn’t mean rejecting wonder, and doesn’t make it too much harder to find something more significant than myself.
You will find AA chapters with religious overtones, and you will find many more that take those steps to set perspective about things bigger than you and beyond your complete understanding.