Why is spirituality and religion tight in to one box? Religion person isn't necessary spiritual person.?

Question

Religion = path to target. Target = spiritual awakening. Many people misstake path to terget. It's easy to see lost people on the path when person alredy reach the target.
Pece & love.

Answer 1

As you said that is why the two are both separate labels rather than one for each. You answered your question.I'm respectful of religion but am a spiritualists only as I don't believe in formal religions especially that profess a deity or god. Hence my path to spiritually is outside of the religious realm but more to do with
a secular or philosophical means to spiritual enlightenment. Religion is a group or is societally relevant and includes spirituality but spirituality can stand apart as well and can be individual or personally relevant.

Answer 2

A religious person is one who is following a prescribed dogma. and a spiritual person is someone who does not, but strives to live based on his life experiences, he learns as he moves, he testes his learnings and if it produces the same desireable results, then only he accepts as his virtue. His vritues are unshakable, because it is a path he has consciencously chosen it, When a religious person talks he is constantly quoting from the relgious text. where as a spiritual person has insight, vision and growth. For a religious person values are from an external force, while a spiritual person values are inborn, tested and compatable to the person concerned, Inside and outside he is the same person.

Answer 3

I know that some people do seem to think that you have to be religious to be spiritual, but that is not the case. Many non religious people are spiritual, and many relgious people are not the slightest bit spiritual. I think being spiritual means that you think outside the box, and find the beliefs that are true for you, by seeking your own answers inside yourself, and not believing things that someone else told you that you are supposed to believe in.

Answer 4

Religion & Spirituality... where lay thy difference?


Religion and Spirituality - what differentiates Religion from Spirituality?

Religion is "absolute truth of life" of the physical manifested world. It is Religion and not Spirituality which forms the basis of the present society we live in. In the present the needs for following a Religion being at its minimum... it is easy to follow any Religion. Anyone... even a layman can follow any Religion but not Spirituality?

What vastly differentiates Religion and Spirituality? Religion... if it forms the core of the physical manifested world... it is the Spirituality (the truth of our Soul within) which upholds the values in the society. Without Spirituality the physical manifested world cannot sustain for long but in the absence of religion... the society can survive on its own.


It is Spirituality (the truth of our real self... our Soul within) which forms the core of the cosmic world. The physical manifested world is a reality in terms of the senses (which guide every human being on its earthly journey). In the cosmic world... our physical manifested world does not hold good for there is nothing solid in the Cosmos. Everything in the Cosmos is made up of the basic building block of the Cosmos which comprise of atoms and molecules alone.

Religion is meant for passing of the physical manifested life in a meaningful manner. Unable to understand the nature of God... humanity has built for itself various religious centers all over the globe. These religious centers are they a mosque, temple or a church... provide a succor to the ever ailing society. They quench the thirst of an average human being... one who does not have time or the resources to contemplate directly on God the Almighty.

Indulgence in Spirituality is not meant for the average human being. To be able to fathom the depths of the Scriptures of the various religions of the world (the core truths of Spirituality)... one needs to dive deep into the pearls of wisdom contained in the various sacred Scriptures of the world. Spirituality is totally oblivious of a religion. In the field of Spirituality one need not go to a mosque, temple or a church in search of God. It is contemplation and only contemplation which shall lead one to God the Almighty. More on god here- http://www.godrealized.org/religion_and_spirituality.html

Answer 5

Well they are SUPPOSED to be lol.

Religion is supposed to be the method you choose to worship in your life long walk of spirituality. Unfortunately, there are many persons who are either too legalistic in their spirit (like the Pharisees were in Jesus day), or are using religion as an "in" in their business or personal life.

I think if you turned it around it would be true too, that a spiritual person isn't necessarily a religious person.

Answer 6

Exactly. People can go to church every time the door is open but that doesn't mean they're saved. Having a spiritual relationship with God is totally different than just having religion.

Answer 7

A spiritual person who claims a partucilar religion is a practitioner of that religion. For example, you have a friend who claims he's christian, yet he doesn't go to church. He's spiritual.

On the other hand, you have a friend who goes to church twice a week. He's religious.

It's all about actions, not words, in this situation, wich is totally hypothetical.

Answer 8

That is absolutely right my friend, just because a person follows a particular religion, it does not make them spiritual.

Cheers!

Answer 9

True.
Two things that are assimilated but not necessarily connected.
Kinda like air and hydrogen.
One includes the other because it has to but the other doesn't necessarily need the first.
Peace.

Answer 10

My husband calls himself a spiritualist, if he had *another* label it whould be Pagan.