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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jun 7, 2020 12:51:04 GMT
Would you say that there is a difference between being religious and being spiritual, or would you say its the same thing ?
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Post by Honey Drops on Jun 7, 2020 13:44:37 GMT
Spiritual too me would mean being a step deeper into religion and the Bible.
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 7, 2020 16:25:36 GMT
Feologild Oakes I have never been religious or spiritual so I may not be the most qualified person to answer. But I usually see some overlap if you put religious and spiritual on Venn diagram. But there are regions on Venn diagram where both mean different things. I think a religious person usually but not always tends more towards traditional and cultural side whereas the spiritual person more often but not always has a more independent view on life. Spiritual person usually is more inclined towards nature and self whereas the religious person is usually more inclined towards god and scripture.
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Post by clusium on Jun 7, 2020 16:54:45 GMT
Would you say that there is a difference between being religious and being spiritual, or would you say its the same thing ? While I do realize that many people see them as being 2 different things, I have always considered them to be the same thing. |
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Post by Isapop on Jun 7, 2020 17:16:11 GMT
Would you say that there is a difference between being religious and being spiritual, or would you say its the same thing ? I'd say (offhandedly) that worship is a necessary component of being religious, but not of being spiritual. |
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Post by Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh on Jun 7, 2020 17:47:07 GMT
Being religious is spirituality, but not all spiritual people are religious.
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Post by Arlon10 on Jun 7, 2020 18:28:24 GMT
Religion is the more or less systematic way in which people address the issues of spirituality. However the terms are often used interchangeably.
Not a very good analogy, I'm sorry, but spirituality is raw, religion is cooked.
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Jun 13, 2020 4:34:46 GMT
I don't know how people can't not be spiritual. This is a spiritual journey, it is just that religion has bastardised the word with its own wrongheaded approach to spirituality. I would say many associate spirituality with religion and it pushes them away from it.
The theist separates God from the rest and the atheist separates God from reality and both have fragmented views.
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Post by moviemouth on Jun 13, 2020 15:47:08 GMT
Spirituality is people wanting to grasp onto something outside of themselves to explain some deep emotional connection that they feel they have to the world.
Religion is something with specific followers, dogmas and rules. You can even believe in God and not be religious. Deist God belief requires no religion for example.
That is how I would separate the two.
I somewhat believe in spirituality, but I reject religion.
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Jun 14, 2020 4:26:32 GMT
I'd say they're quite different, no matter how you define spirituality, which is a pretty vague term. I think of spirituality as being synonymous with "awareness of mind." Religion is about far more than just that, and even when it comes to mind religion tends to be very systematic about how minds should be as opposed to just being aware of what is.
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