WORLD RELIGION

SPIRITUAL BUT NOT RELIGIOUS

SPIRITUAL BUT NOT RELIGIOUS

The "love Jesus but not the church" crowd in significant ways. Those who Barna defined as
loving Jesus but not the church still strongly identify with their faith, they just don't attend
church. As we'll see below, though, the "spiritual but not religous" hold much looser ideas
about God, spiritual practices and religion.

Most of us who write, think, and talk about religion are by now used to hearing people say
that they are spiritual, but not religious. With the phrase generally comes the presumption
that religion has to do with doctrines, dogmas, and ritual practices, whereas spirituality has to
do with the heart, feeling, and experience. The spiritual person has an immediate and
spontaneous experience of the divine or of some higher power. She does not subscribe to
beliefs handed to her by existing religious traditions, nor does she engage in the ritual life of
any particular institution. At the heart of the distinction between religion and spirituality,
then, lies the presumption that to think and act within an existing tradition—to practice
religion—risks making one less spiritual. To be religious is to bow to the authority of another,
to believe in doctrines determined for one in advance, to read ancient texts only as they are
handed down through existing interpretative traditions, and blindly to perform formalized
rituals. For the spiritual, religion is inert, arid, and dead; the practitioner of religion, whether
consciously or not, is at best without feeling, at worst insincere. 1
 Practices of Spirituality

Prayer Meditatio Chanting Breathing

Rituals
n Exercise
RELIGIOUS BUT NOT SPIRITUAL
RELIGIOUS BUT NOT SPIRITUAL

• Religious a person who manifest devotion to a God or deity.

Believing God gives meaning to their lives. God helps them to
deal with the stressful moments of the their lives, God help
them to move on and enables us to avoid depression. When
having faith and trust to God, he will put you in the right way,
where you need to be, and he could put people in your life that
teaches you a lesson.
 A person who
reads bible
Children everyday.
attending a Joining a
Bible study church choir.
class.

A person who Practices

goes to of Children
church every being given a
Sunday to Religious Confirmation.
pray. Person
• Submitted by:
Nica Claire Villaluz
Justin Lloyd Lomocso
Jeffy Kate Vitor