Weird to see so many folks (in the comments and the article itself) equating spirituality with religion. There's nothing "spiritual" about religion....
Weird to see so many folks (in the comments and the article itself) equating spirituality with religion. There's nothing "spiritual" about religion....
This is a very typical hippie/protestant understanding. There's *everything* spiritual about putting your faith into physical, tangible, embodied practice, which is the meaning of religion.
No ... it's not. If you born in Iran, you'd be telling me how "spiritual" the Islamic religion is. If you were born in India, Hinduism is what you'd gleefully espouse. If you were born in the Pre-Olympian Bronze Age, Poseidon would have probably given you a great life's insight.
But, you were born in the modern West, and inherited your Westerly-dominated faith, so it's the "Christian spiritualism" sort that really tickles your fancy. There's definitely someone with "hippie" aspirations in this equation, but I can assure you, it's not me.
That doesn't fix your problem: demons are spiritual too.
Some try to define "religion" a something negative: that's not what it means. It describes having a relationship with God in a specific way: e.g., the Christian way rather than the Islamic way or the Buddhist way.
Weird to see so many folks (in the comments and the article itself) equating spirituality with religion. There's nothing "spiritual" about religion....
This is a very typical hippie/protestant understanding. There's *everything* spiritual about putting your faith into physical, tangible, embodied practice, which is the meaning of religion.
No ... it's not. If you born in Iran, you'd be telling me how "spiritual" the Islamic religion is. If you were born in India, Hinduism is what you'd gleefully espouse. If you were born in the Pre-Olympian Bronze Age, Poseidon would have probably given you a great life's insight.
But, you were born in the modern West, and inherited your Westerly-dominated faith, so it's the "Christian spiritualism" sort that really tickles your fancy. There's definitely someone with "hippie" aspirations in this equation, but I can assure you, it's not me.
That doesn't fix your problem: demons are spiritual too.
Some try to define "religion" a something negative: that's not what it means. It describes having a relationship with God in a specific way: e.g., the Christian way rather than the Islamic way or the Buddhist way.