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Focus on Religion: Religion & Spirituality

Saturday March 29, 2008
One popular idea is that there exists a distinction between two different modes of relating with the divine or the sacred: religion and spirituality. Religion describes the social, the public, and the organized means by which people relate the the sacred and the divine while spirituality describes such relations when they occur in private, personally, and even in eclectic ways.

 

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January 2, 2007 at 4:57 pm
(1) tuffy says:

if there are no spirits or gods, then, to me, there is no spirituality.
we are organisms. we do this and that (like believing in spirits or believing that we are spiritual), but, in reality, we are like any other species…just doin what comes naturally.

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