Differences Between Spirituality And Religion

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84% of the people on earth claim to be religious.(2) One third of the world claims to be Christians, 1.6 billion people in the world claim to be Islamic, (3) and one out of five people in the world claim to be spiritual but not religious. (1) Spirituality and religion are often thought to be synonymous, but it’s important to understand the differences between the two. The two have been around for ages, but even though they contrast; they are not the same. One could be described as an outer look on acts and laws, the other more as an internal look of oneself.

“Religions are compared to deity, eternity, grace, judgement, salvation, and so on and so forth, selected criteria of meaning are used to organized data rather than to discern a pattern …show more content…

A spiritual individual does the good works because they are a changed human who wants to benefit others. The downfall to only being spiritual is the idea of not having a community to hold you accountable to doing these deeds, and to have others, that have the same faith and trust in the same supernatural world. To not have spiritual guidance or the help from others to assist in another's internal development with the spiritual …show more content…

This concept is true. The idea of being spiritual without the laws and rules. But, a religious system without spirituality doesn’t truly exist. Without the idea of the unknown and what lies behind it, spirituality and religion both would be irrelevant. The search for what comes next, that faith in the unknown, the search for something greater than this world, all come from a faith in an external force no one can scientifically explain. Spirituality can exist without religion but religion cannot truly exist without

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