Religion vs. Spirituality

A friend asked me to discuss the difference. This is also a response to the whole "it's spirituality / a relationship, not a religion" crowd.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• religion
• spirituality
• philosophy
• druidry

[ruiseartalcorn]

Hallo there - thank you for this :) Even though my "shovel" may be a wee bit different, I concur :) Le beannachdan (With blessings), Ruiseart - Gaelic Druid Order (Scotland).

[TheRunica]

Extreme left-wing spirituality is concerned with deactivating the power of religious belief within the human psyche by devaluing it to a perspective on mental health. The magick is taken from magick to become nothing more than a visualization technique for personal motivation in attaining goals. The divine is reduced to the status of uneducated superstition & armed with this disrespect for ancestry they attempt to subvert & prevent the evolution of humanity for political dominance.

[TheRunica]

The extreme left are opposed to all religions & seek to prevent the rise of any neo-pagan religions by attempting to redefine the boundaries of acceptable pagan communal belief. An individual that holds any personal religious belief is viewed as the right-wing enemy & is liable to come under pressure to allign themselves with the left by adopting the politically neutral term of spirituality. I refuse to bow to this pressure because I have a religious belief of my own & must be true to myself.

[TheRunica]

It appears that a political propaganda war is being fought by extremists against the human possession of religious belief. Hearts & minds are being turned against the whole concept of having a religion to steer pagan development to the political left. `Religion is the opium of the people` - Karl Marx. They attempt to destroy emerging religions by attacking the entire of religion & questioning the sanity of adherents. They attempt to dismantle belief with academic theory & the fear of ridicule.

[SilverShadowization]

I really love this video. You've basically said what I've been thinking about the topic for a good while now. Everyone is always like,"Well religion and spirituality is COMPLETELY different." And for some reason I somewhat agreed with that but never really understood it. I think this video helped that honestly. THANK YOU!

[apetrowsky1]

All belief systems are false. Created by the oppressors of this world to enslave the minds of the ones that chooses fall for them. It is also a way to seperate people and to keep them from the truth of who they are and cause war and chaos. And a business to help fund the war machine for mass murder or mass sacrifice to those that control the elite. If you can't handle the truth don't come to my channel.

[jaredletoloverxx]

dunno dont care youre all retarded i cant even remember posting messages here but obvs i did because they seem to be removed :O WHAT WHO WHEN WHERE WHY

[HergerSeamus]

What do you mean you didn't find what Fiacharrey said offensive? In your first statement you said you did.

You said:

"i understand this is your opinion but the way youre putting it across is offensive"

Which is it?

[fiacharrey]

What am I "trying" to say? I think I said exactly what I was trying to say. The "spades conversation" is called a metaphor. You may or may not think it an apt one, which would be a more meaningful discussion. And your dislike of me taking a humorous approach to what is apparently a sensitive topic for you is duly noted.

[fiacharrey]

If you don't think religion is important to me, you must not have checked out my other videos. If you'd like to talk about what I said instead of how I said it, we might have an interesting conversation.