Is there a difference between religion and spiritual belief?

Question

I may not be asking this right, but there a lot of folks who blame religion for much of the viloence and unrest in the world today. I don't go to a church because I chose not to, but I do believe Christ died for my sins and I read God's word. Is all this condemnation of religion due to the false or erronious teaching in our churches today?

Answer 1

Religion and spirituality are polar opposites.

Spirituality is having a close personal relationship with God exactly the way that God is.

Religion tries to define God in a particular image that that particular religion is comfortable with.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

No. I'd say "all this condemnation of religion" is due to Religion's unquestionable record of failure to deliver the goods, as promised.

Given a couple thousand years, not one Christian has ever been able to substantiate their claim that God literally exists. The rules of logic tell us if a positive assertion (God does exist.) cannot be proved, then the assertion must be considered false. Since it is always fundamentally impossible to prove a negative assertion (God does not exist.), it is essentially the Christians themselves who have proved their own God does not exist.

Beyond the logical issues, Christianity's own historical record is utterly hideous -- being filled with persecution, torture, and execution for all who dared to hold an opinion that contradicted official doctrine. All of religion and spirituality is based on the false premise that human subjective mental experiences form the basis of reality -- in other words, that reality revolves around the human mind. This philosophical view is called Solipsism and was the invention of Aristotle. Not only does Solipsism attribute reality to human subjective mental experiences, but it also asserts that the physical realm is unreal, and is merely an imaginary fabrication of the human mind. Solipsism dominated Western Civilization for two thousand years -- until, in 1590 Galileo discovered that Aristotle's "wisdom" could be easily disproved with simple physical experiments. By the end of the seventeenth century, Isaac Newton's mechanics had essentially used mathematics to prove that the physical realm is objectively real. This was the beginning of Science, which in effect asserts that the physical realm is actually real and that the subjective experiences of the human mind are the imaginary mental constructs of our living brains.

Solipsism was used by the early Church to create a mystical and superstitious civilization that contained Crusades, Inquisitions, practiced torture and severely punished anyone who dared to think for themselves. Countless thousands were burned at the stake for nothing but questioning ignorant superstitions. Although most of Europe had been "enlightened" by the end of the eighteenth century, the reign of religious terror continued until the mid-nineteenth century, when the government of Mexico officially expelled the Catholic church for one hundred years because the Church burned a medical doctor at the stake for daring to insist that human conscious awareness was created by a our living brains. In modern times, science has proved that both Aristotle's Solipsism and Plato's Idealism are utterly false because both depend on the assumption that the basis of reality is the human mind. It is now a well established fact that only the physical realm is objectively real and that subjective mental experiences are created by our own living brains, based on the limited information provided by our five senses.

These days, the condemnation of religion you observe arises from the fact that the body of human knowledge has been greatly expanded due to the discovery of the scientific method. Humanity has finally figured out for itself how to discover the actual truth and has unfortunately also learned that Solipsism and all the other superstitious crap being peddled by religion is utterly false. Reality does not revolve around human mental processes and everybody except the mentally ill and the devoutly religious knows this to be a fact. The teachings in our modern churches are essentially the same false and erroneous superstitions they have always been. What's different is that a growing proportion of our population now has enough scientific education to appreciate that religion has always been in error because it is necessarily based on the false assumption that human subjective mental experiences are real. The scientific revolution has proved that the fundamental premise of all religion and spirituality is utterly false -- or, that only the physical realm and not mental experiences are objectively real. Unfortunately, modern organized religion is far too rigid and inflexible to remedy its own deeply fundamental errors.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

massive difference:

Religion = An institution with common beliefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion

Spiritual = the non material
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality

I do not have any religion however I do have spiritual experiences.

I am now looking out of my window. It is Autumn so the trees are in wonderful colour. upon the bird table: sparrows, Dunnocks, Blackbirds, Bullfinches, Wood pigeons, Cold ****, Great ****, Blue ****, Robins, Magpies and squirrels. I am listening to Bach.

At one and the same time I feel joy, peace, and calm. Tears fill my eyes because beauty is so wonderful - free and freeing

Who can ask for more of the spirit. It does not need any supernatural explanation - it is.

Answer 5

There is alot of error in the churches but I wouldn't say they are all wrong. But I personally choose to be spiritual and take out the guess work of finding a right church. Alot of churches try to make you walk the straight and narrow even though they themselves cannot do it like you see with the sexual abuse issues. And why God gave us the laws, was not for us to follow but for us to realize how incapable we are to follow them and how desperate we are in need of a personal Lord God and Savior.
So I personally Love my relationship with God, I read my Bible as much as daily as possible and as I go through the day I ponder how His word might produce peace and joy in the situations in my day, not that I can actually do what the word says yet. But I do my best. And throughout the day I take time out to talk to Him and thank Him for everything He has already done in my life and for me through the supreme sacrifice of His Son and my LORD GOD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.

Take care and may God bless you spiritually.

Answer 6

Spiritual belief is a personal thing. Religion is a social thing, that is, a group of people agreeing to manifest their personal beliefs publicly in a certain way. This is why organized religion becomes wrapped in the personal biases of its proponents.

Answer 7

My pastor say Religion is mans attempt to to put God into a box.


Christianity was meant to be a way of life with just three basic rules, Love God with all your heart, Love your neighbor as you love your self, and believe that Jesus is the resurrected son of God.

Answer 8

Yes, you can still reach your goal, a man asked Jesus one day what must he do to be saved and Jesus answered him stating Believe in me and you will be saved! There was no membership to a religion or church mentioned.

Answer 9

Yes, there is a huge difference.

I think there is a God and I do not believe in any man made idiotic dogma.

Answer 10

OH OK