Thread: What are the differences between spirituality and religion?

If at all, how are they intertwined?

The Main Difference Between Religion And Spirituality

Spirituality is direct communion, or the seeking of direct communion, with the Divine.
Religion was created by people who wanted to pursue spiritual evolution. It is meant to point the way to enlightenment, that is, union with the Divine....


Religion can be seen as a pathway that leads to God. The pathway is not God, but in the best and highest intentions it would lead people closer to God. All true religious paths and teachings came into existence through divine inspiration and revelation, the spark of God's love and light that opens a pathway for God's presence to be seen and felt more directly.

Spirituality is a more general term that includes religion but that also encompasses the general human impulse to reach out towards the greater whole of which we all are a part. The difference between religion and spirituality is simply that most religions offer a specific set of beliefs and structures to help people to attune to their innate spirituality.

We reap what we sow, and the love, healing and positive energy that you share with others will come back to you in the form of abundance and blessing. The difference between religion and spirituality is in form only, for the true essence of all spiritual and religious practices is God. God's love profoundly heals comforts and transforms all those who seek to be nourished by the divine eternal flame of goodness and purity. Love and respect all true religious and spiritual paths, and always listen to your own heart which is a part of God's heart.

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Spirituality+Theism=Religion

Spirituality is the belief that the soul has a connection to the world around it

Religion: A large social engine centered around the belief in a Deity(s) which incorporates spirituality for a greater impression of a culture onto a person

If you consider yourself 'religious' you usually consider yourself 'spiritual' also.
However, you can be 'spiritual' without being 'religious'. What that means is that you may follow a particular spiritual path, but not feel the need to be a member of any particular religious organization.
Some Spiritual Paths, such as Buddhism and Paganism are considered 'religions', but they really aren't. Spirituality is a way of life. Religion is an organization that attempts to guide and direct the lives of its members.

One religion - Unitarian Universalism, allows its members to choose any spiritual path they wish and still consider themselves UU's. This means you will have a person identifying as a UU, but following a spirituality of Buddhism, or Humanist, or Pagan or Jewish or even Christian.

Religions are means of social control.

Spirituality is knowledge beyond the material.

Spirituality is the connecting with the greater power.

Religion is the markers, boundaries, path that lead you closer to the greater power.

The spirit is kind of the mind and will;
religions are of two kinds: true and false.

Hearken and hear, O ye my people, saith the Lord and your God, ye whom I delight to bless with the greatest of all blessings, ye that hear me; and ye that hear me not will I curse, that have professed my name, with the heaviest of all cursings.

all religion involve spirituality in their belief
but not all spirituality are religion.

religion is of man and Spirituality is of God.