{"id":849,"date":"2014-03-05T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/03\/spiritual-and-religious.html"},"modified":"2014-03-05T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T17:36:00","slug":"spiritual-and-religious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/03\/spiritual-and-religious.html","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual and Religious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Without a doubt, it is a new day for spirituality in our world. In the popularity contest of modern life, it is religion which can\u2019t get a date for the prom. More and more, people are declaring themselves \u201cspiritual but not religious,\u201d and it is both a problem and progress for us.<\/span><\/div>\n
The problem with being \u201cspiritual but not religious\u201d is that it is a dead-end for the spiritual seeker. Without the positive \u201ctools\u201d of religion, it can only describe a person\u2019s point-of-view \u2014 expressing a sense of open wonder and personal conviction about transcendent possibilities and the numinous on the one hand, and a disinterest in, or dissatisfaction with known religious history, structures and dogmas on the other.<\/span><\/div>\n
Don\u2019t get me wrong; I\u2019m not criticizing people who identify themselves as \u201cspiritual but not religious.\u201d Anybody who feels compelled to choose spirituality over religion has, in my opinion, \u201cchosen the better part\u201d \u2014 to quote Jesus from the Gospels [1]. Sometimes it seems like the only appropriate response. The problem arises when we are asked, or we ask ourselves, \u201cHow are you \u2018spiritual but not religious\u2019?\u201d For when we try to answer the question, we either have a difficult time explaining it, or immediately start to name activities we do, or refer to teachings from existing religious traditions that undermine the original statement.<\/span><\/div>\n
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