RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Religion is any practice that someone or a group is seriously devoted to, while spirituality is a state of being spiritual. Now spiritual means anything pertaining to the spirit or the soul. The sole reason why religious organization was created is to make sure its members get spiritually uplifted. But today many of our spiritual groups have completely forgotten why there was religion in the first place. What we call religion today, is just the gathering of a group of people that posse’ similar temperaments, and abide by a common code of conduct. These days’ things of the soul are rapidly losing relevance while material things are seriously becoming more relevant. Now religious institutions are more concerned with the physical structures they can see and the amount of money in their bank accounts. Some religious organization, would claim to be spiritual not material but they don’t care to fully understand what it means to be spiritual, at the end they make a grievous mistake –they make the mistake of replacing religionism for spirituality. How do they do that? Such organizations are always concerned with the outward appearance of its members; they always appear to love themselves, they always religious to a particular doctrine –if you don’t follow their doctrine they would say that you are a sinner, an unbeliever and some of them even present themselves like angels on earth –but we know they are far from that, in any case we would honor them like angels; because we don’t want them to insult us and call us all sort of names. At the end they religious groups forget a very vital point – they forget that spirituality is about the inward life, not the outward appearance. There is another group of people. These group like deism and church of scientology, seems to be just perfect, from all of their publications you see them throwing more light on spiritual growth than material things. They dig out faults in other groups and then make efforts to correct such flaws. But they forget what the Christian bible says about removing the stick in your neighbors’ eyes instead of paying attention to the log of wood in your own eyes. From every indication, it is clear that none of the religious bodies can exempt herself from this terrible mistake of replacing religion for spirituality. Please let us note the difference. For more visit www.emmyjoach.blogspot.com

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