Define both terms please.
I equate religious to tribal and we are all born tribal.
Spiritual is more of how one thinks. It is a hard term to define other than the Gnostic Christian ways, which is being a perpetual seeker of the best laws and rules to live by.
That is why we condemn Yahweh to hell, along with his vile commandments.
Any spiritual person will do the same, as their morality is more secular and inclusive.
Regards
DL
I'd define it the opposite way, actually.
Religious to me is linked up with
organized religion, churches, sheeps gathering in their pastures.
And religion is the cowards way of copping out from his/her own responsibility, leaning on each others disposition for
badly constructed, reality-averted presumptions. It's an easy path to take, to get off the hook of examine
what and
why life is.
The token of existence reaches an unbearable point of pain where they feel forced to gather under shared delusions,
and with those delusions, they've built a set of morals in direct dissonance to the tangible, real world (whatever that is).
Spiritual for me is tribal, something pure and beautiful we've lost long ago, which I think drives people into the cages of religion.
I bet you have your family and circle of friends, right? I'd consider them your tribe. You live and do good for them;
not for the expectation of a heavenly award from a narcissistic overlord.
Before churches were built, before we had much more than shreds of dead aninal-fur and a fire, it was there.
Before we had namnes for everything; before god become another weapon in the toolbox of oppressors.
I believe all morals, laws and rules are made by men, and I'm not gonna bend over backwards to please dead men.
I believe in meeting anybody with respect unless they prove themselves unworthy of it;
I don't believe turning the other cheek is a virtue; that's a coward hiding behind something "noble";
that's by no means a good and virtuous man - such a man would break the jaw of the man who slaps his cheek.
Jesus was by no means a good person; agreeable, yes. Compassionate, yes.
But good? No.
Not only religious people but people overall seems to truly believe that we can somehow reach an understanding.
That's nothing but hubris. We're born into a slaughterhouse of our own making, and it ain't nothing that's gonna tear that fucker down.
This got nonsensical, somehow.
I raraley formulate this, as I don't propagate and people here just don't give a fuck about these things - ain't nobody ever ask you about your views on god here.
We all know, if he ever was, he left us long ago. And even if there is a god such as the mobster in either Testament, in the Torah or Quran, what fucking different does it make to me?
The conditions remain the same, as history painfully points out; man eats man, like starving dogs.
But I do, or I want to, believe there is a force beyond petty concepts as good and evil.
It's been years since I actually contemplated religion. The only God as far as I'm concerned is dying, and Death makes no different between a killer and a saint.
