What I'm poorly communicating about here is a quality of consciousness. In spirituality there is a change, can be brought about by a lot of different methods-meditation form irrelevant, where you sense a connection to the whole universe. Its brought about by you-can be restoring, and no god necessary.
Spirituality is hard wired into the brain, religion is learned. That's the distinction I was going for. And its not about 'belief', as I just said, that's learned. Spiritual experiences are available to anyone who practices meditative techniques. It makes my life better, so I do it. If you don't need something like that for your life to be fulfilling, more power to you.
This is my other post:
Sometimes as in churches that are 'away from the world' in their theology. Other times it can make flying into a building seem like a good idea. Mostly religiosity, and I mean more than half of folks, religiosity is a form of fundamentalism that gives a rigid world view steeped in legalism and dividing the world into 'saved' and 'sinners' leaving folks approaching life with a fantasy role playing war game. Us vs Satan. Really useful to authoritarians and nothing about a sense of connection to a loving god or universe.
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