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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being spiritual is wanting the benefits of religion without having to do the work [/quote]

It’s actually the complete opposite.  Being spiritual requires that you actually think.  To spend time in meditation and/or prayer.  To seek.  Being religious simply requires you to follow a bunch of man made rules designed specifically to control the masses.[/quote]

It’s quite interesting how the core content of these “man made rules designed specifically to control the masses” is and has been largely consistent across ages, cultures, societies, geographies, etc., as far as recorded history runs. Almost as if they were inscribed in the human heart like some sort of natural law. [/quote]

No.  Sacred scripture was intentionally distorted to control.  Distorted specifically by MEN in power to retain power and wealth.  It really is that simple. The natural laws of love, compassion, tolerance, inclusiveness, and equality are clearly not religious laws.  They transcend religious views and scripture.  When we begin to wake up from the lies we’ve been conditioned to believe through fear, we see religion for what it is.  A lie. [/quote]

“Religion” actually is a virtue whose purpose is to render God the worship due to Him as the source of all being and the giver of all good things.  This virtue gets confused with the systems that develop around the inclination to exercise it.

As for being conditioned through fear, many people exercise the virtue of religion not merely as an expression of what is due in justice to a supreme being but also out of hope for a better life both in the present and in eternity.

The conformance with natural law is itself an expression of the virtue of religion. [/quote]

[b]Can’t people render God the worship they deserve without religion?[/b][/quote]

No, because worship is, per se, religious.[/quote]

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