Spiritual vs Religious

[Anonymous]

Do you consider there to be a difference between being spiritual and being religious? Is anyone here spiritual but not religious? Or religious but not spiritual? Does either word have positive or negative connotations for you?

[Anonymous]

I do see a difference in the two. To me being spiritual means that you believe in some sort of other power, whether it be the earth, nature, whatever. Religion is a more formal dogmatic belief in a higher power that has been taught to you with rules created by humans and led by humans with a hierarchy in the setup, ie leaders and followers. There is an established set of beliefs, and they are to be followed by you.

People who are just spiritual can believe what they want, there are no rules, no one to dictate what to believe. I do think there is overlap. I am not religious but an spiritual.

[Anonymous]

op, are you the poster that has repeatedly posted in another thread that your opinion is that people who go to church say they are spiritual and not religious because saying they are religious is embarrassing?

if not, what is your opinion on the question you posted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:op, are you the poster that has repeatedly posted in another thread that your opinion is that people who go to church say they are spiritual and not religious because saying they are religious is embarrassing?

if not, what is your opinion on the question you posted?

OP is definitely drawing from that other thread. OP is either housebound in Boston this weekend, or she really doesn’t have a life.

[Anonymous]

Yes, but does "spiritual" mean belief in the supernatural?

If so, then the distinctions are of lesser importance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:op, are you the poster that has repeatedly posted in another thread that your opinion is that people who go to church say they are spiritual and not religious because saying they are religious is embarrassing?

if not, what is your opinion on the question you posted?

OP is definitely drawing from that other thread. OP is either housebound in Boston this weekend, or she really doesn’t have a life.

My vote is no life. The “everyone says spiritual because they are embarrassed to say religious” trolling has been going on for a few days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do see a difference in the two. To me being spiritual means that you believe in some sort of other power, whether it be the earth, nature, whatever. Religion is a more formal dogmatic belief in a higher power that has been taught to you with rules created by humans and led by humans with a hierarchy in the setup, ie leaders and followers. There is an established set of beliefs, and they are to be followed by you.

People who are just spiritual can believe what they want, there are no rules, no one to dictate what to believe. I do think there is overlap. I am not religious but an spiritual.

I agree with this assessment. I am religious but not spiritual.

[Anonymous]

I am spiritual but not religious. I do not belong to an organized religion, and no organized religion fully aligns with my beliefs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I do see a difference in the two. To me being spiritual means that you believe in some sort of other power, whether it be the earth, nature, whatever. Religion is a more formal dogmatic belief in a higher power that has been taught to you with rules created by humans and led by humans with a hierarchy in the setup, ie leaders and followers. There is an established set of beliefs, and they are to be followed by you.

People who are just spiritual can believe what they want, there are no rules, no one to dictate what to believe. I do think there is overlap. I am not religious but an spiritual.

I agree with this assessment. I am religious but not spiritual.

Really? Did you say that correctly?

[Anonymous]

Spiritual is openness and or experience of the divine or similarly transcendent emotion/feeling, without following any prescribed set of rules or attaching official labels. It’s the internal experience.

Religion is the set of practices that help a faith feel real, or the history and source documents when a desired spirituality is lacking and to study more deeply understand an experience.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I do see a difference in the two. To me being spiritual means that you believe in some sort of other power, whether it be the earth, nature, whatever. Religion is a more formal dogmatic belief in a higher power that has been taught to you with rules created by humans and led by humans with a hierarchy in the setup, ie leaders and followers. There is an established set of beliefs, and they are to be followed by you.

People who are just spiritual can believe what they want, there are no rules, no one to dictate what to believe. I do think there is overlap. I am not religious but an spiritual.

I agree with this assessment. I am religious but not spiritual.

Really? Did you say that correctly?

No, they said it wrong. Yes they said it correctly. Why does everything here turn into the Spanish Inquisition? Meanwhile op, who already spent the better part of another thread over multiple days accusing everyone who posted in it of being “spiritual” so they didn’t have to admit to being “un-cool” and religious” won’t answer their own question.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I do see a difference in the two. To me being spiritual means that you believe in some sort of other power, whether it be the earth, nature, whatever. Religion is a more formal dogmatic belief in a higher power that has been taught to you with rules created by humans and led by humans with a hierarchy in the setup, ie leaders and followers. There is an established set of beliefs, and they are to be followed by you.

People who are just spiritual can believe what they want, there are no rules, no one to dictate what to believe. I do think there is overlap. I am not religious but an spiritual.

I agree with this assessment. I am religious but not spiritual.

Really? Did you say that correctly?

No, they said it wrong. Yes they said it correctly. Why does everything here turn into the Spanish Inquisition? Meanwhile op, who already spent the better part of another thread over multiple days accusing everyone who posted in it of being “spiritual” so they didn’t have to admit to being “un-cool” and religious” won’t answer their own question.

I'm sorry to get you all worked up, and didn't mean my question to be the Spanish Inquisition. I was just wondering how one can be religious without being spiritual. Perhaps that pp would explain?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I do see a difference in the two. To me being spiritual means that you believe in some sort of other power, whether it be the earth, nature, whatever. Religion is a more formal dogmatic belief in a higher power that has been taught to you with rules created by humans and led by humans with a hierarchy in the setup, ie leaders and followers. There is an established set of beliefs, and they are to be followed by you.

People who are just spiritual can believe what they want, there are no rules, no one to dictate what to believe. I do think there is overlap. I am not religious but an spiritual.

I agree with this assessment. I am religious but not spiritual.

Really? Did you say that correctly?

No, they said it wrong. Yes they said it correctly. Why does everything here turn into the Spanish Inquisition? Meanwhile op, who already spent the better part of another thread over multiple days accusing everyone who posted in it of being “spiritual” so they didn’t have to admit to being “un-cool” and religious” won’t answer their own question.

I'm sorry to get you all worked up, and didn't mean my question to be the Spanish Inquisition. I was just wondering how one can be religious without being spiritual. Perhaps that pp would explain?

Are you the person who has been posting about this topic for multiple days in the other thread? Why will you not answer that? And what’s your opinion and answer ti the question you want everyone else to answer?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I do see a difference in the two. To me being spiritual means that you believe in some sort of other power, whether it be the earth, nature, whatever. Religion is a more formal dogmatic belief in a higher power that has been taught to you with rules created by humans and led by humans with a hierarchy in the setup, ie leaders and followers. There is an established set of beliefs, and they are to be followed by you.

People who are just spiritual can believe what they want, there are no rules, no one to dictate what to believe. I do think there is overlap. I am not religious but an spiritual.

I agree with this assessment. I am religious but not spiritual.

Really? Did you say that correctly?

No, they said it wrong. Yes they said it correctly. Why does everything here turn into the Spanish Inquisition? Meanwhile op, who already spent the better part of another thread over multiple days accusing everyone who posted in it of being “spiritual” so they didn’t have to admit to being “un-cool” and religious” won’t answer their own question.

I'm sorry to get you all worked up, and didn't mean my question to be the Spanish Inquisition. I was just wondering how one can be religious without being spiritual. Perhaps that pp would explain?

Are you the person who has been posting about this topic for multiple days in the other thread? Why will you not answer that? And what’s your opinion and answer ti the question you want everyone else to answer?

If you read that other thread, the answer is obvious. OP thinks people describe themselves as “spiritual” because they know “religious” is a bad word (supposedly). This is from OP’s perspective as an atheist who thinks “religion” itself is a bad word. YMMV and most on that other thread disagreed.

Also, nobody on that other thread even described themselves as “spiritual.” Instead they talked about finding “spiritual meaning” or “a spiritual community” in their churches. OP was asked to provide a time stamp for her claim that people on the thread were calling themselves “spiritual” and she never did.

So this whole thread is a bit of gotcha game based on false premises. But by all means, op, keep it up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I do see a difference in the two. To me being spiritual means that you believe in some sort of other power, whether it be the earth, nature, whatever. Religion is a more formal dogmatic belief in a higher power that has been taught to you with rules created by humans and led by humans with a hierarchy in the setup, ie leaders and followers. There is an established set of beliefs, and they are to be followed by you.

People who are just spiritual can believe what they want, there are no rules, no one to dictate what to believe. I do think there is overlap. I am not religious but an spiritual.

I agree with this assessment. I am religious but not spiritual.

Really? Did you say that correctly?

No, they said it wrong. Yes they said it correctly. Why does everything here turn into the Spanish Inquisition? Meanwhile op, who already spent the better part of another thread over multiple days accusing everyone who posted in it of being “spiritual” so they didn’t have to admit to being “un-cool” and religious” won’t answer their own question.

I'm sorry to get you all worked up, and didn't mean my question to be the Spanish Inquisition. I was just wondering how one can be religious without being spiritual. Perhaps that pp would explain?

Are you the person who has been posting about this topic for multiple days in the other thread? Why will you not answer that? And what’s your opinion and answer ti the question you want everyone else to answer?

If you read that other thread, the answer is obvious. OP thinks people describe themselves as “spiritual” because they know “religious” is a bad word (supposedly). This is from OP’s perspective as an atheist who thinks “religion” itself is a bad word. YMMV and most on that other thread disagreed.

Also, nobody on that other thread even described themselves as “spiritual.” Instead they talked about finding “spiritual meaning” or “a spiritual community” in their churches. OP was asked to provide a time stamp for her claim that people on the thread were calling themselves “spiritual” and she never did.

So this whole thread is a bit of gotcha game based on false premises. But by all means, op, keep it up.

Total troll who won’t even answer the question they want us to answer, and makes two threads to try to prove their point. Ugh.