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Old 01-23-2007, 12:27 AM
TTChamp TTChamp is offline
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Default Spirituality versus Religion

I am making up a charter for an organization I am forming. The following paragraph is one of the points of the charter. Please provide feedback of all types (poor wording, content, points you disagree with). Thanks.

Spirituality and religion are not synonymous. Given humanity’s current knowledge of the universe, certain spiritual and metaphysical questions can not be answered.

Spirituality is the quality one achieves through exploration of these unanswerable questions.

Religion is a set of beliefs based on superstitious or historical answers to spiritual questions.

Due to the limitations in humanity’s knowledge, religions can’t justify their beliefs so they ask their followers to rely on faith or historical events that can’t be reproduced. Worse, religion typically requires its followers to live by a dogmatic set of rules that are based on the group’s spiritual beliefs. Since these beliefs are not based on reason, the actions required of practitioners and the moral distinctions made by religious leaders are often peculiar and make little sense when examined logically.
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