BluSeraphim
I have a community reform church a block up the street from my house, and the members keep coming to my door to try and get me to join. At first I was very polite as this has happened many times in the past and I have, through much soul searching, learned to tolerate organised religion and its practitioners. After a few months of this harassment, for that's what it turns into after the first three visits, I decided to tell these people what I really thought about religion. I told the woman that while we did not believe in organised religion, we were a very spiritual household. She replied, so you have read the bible then? To which I responded, which one? Then added, no, that is a tool of organised religion, we are a spiritual family, not a religious one. I finished by thanking her very much for her interest in the state of my soul and firmly closed the door. I thought to myself later that the woman probably didn't even know there was a difference between the two. And so I say this to any who might be interested in learning the difference: spirituality is our unique and individual relationship with God or Goddess, religion is a man made form of controlling the ignorant masses. 'Nuf said. Blu.