Is reality only physical, or is there also a spiritual side?

There is more than the physical. Science measures matter; it cannot weigh the soul, explain awareness, or rule on why anything exists. The unseen — God, angels, the soul, the hereafter — is real (Qur'an 2:3).

Most atheists are naturalists: reality is the physical world that physics and the other sciences describe, and there is no spiritual realm. A minority hold that abstract things like numbers or moral truths are real without being physical — while still denying any god.

An open question, honestly held open. The observable world is physical and science describes it; whether anything lies beyond is precisely the matter on which agnostics decline to pronounce.

Both: the creed confesses God as maker 'of all things visible and invisible.' The physical world is created good — Christian hope is bodily resurrection, not escape from matter — and there is also a spiritual order: souls, angels, and God himself.

Both: God creates a physical world and repeatedly calls it good, and there is also an unseen order — the soul, angels, God's presence. Judaism resists treating matter as evil; Heschel called the Sabbath a 'palace in time,' the spiritual entering ordinary life.

Not only physical: the texts describe many planes of existence, seen and unseen, and treat the mind as primary — «mind precedes all things.» Yet there is no eternal spiritual substance anywhere; every realm and every state of mind is impermanent and conditioned.

The spiritual side is not just real but primary: for Advaita the changing physical world is maya — dependent, provisional appearance over Brahman — while Samkhya counts spirit (purusha) and matter (prakriti) as two eternal principles. Ancient India had its materialists (the Charvaka school), and the Hindu schools spent centuries refuting them.

Both. Creation is real — God's own handiwork, pervaded by the divine light — but it is transient, and clinging to it as final (maya) is the trap. The world is an arena for meeting God, neither an illusion to flee nor a possession to grasp.

No position. Whether reality has a spiritual side is exactly the kind of question secularism assigns to citizens, houses of worship, and philosophy — not to governments.

On the mainstream view, nature is all there is — Manifesto I already described the universe as self-existing, not created. Experiences called spiritual — awe, love, wonder — are treated as real and precious, but natural.

No position. Whether reality has a spiritual side is exactly the kind of question liberalism removes from politics and returns to the citizen's conscience.

No shared answer: each feminist keeps the metaphysics of her own religion or philosophy. The movement's claims concern how society treats women, not what reality is made of.

It offers no doctrine; that is left to its members' religions. When Romantics like Herder spoke of a people's 'spirit' (Volksgeist), they meant its shared culture and character, not a metaphysical claim.