Bagi tiap-tiap umat yang ada di antara kamu, Kami jadikan suatu Syariat dan jalan ugama. Dan kalau Allah menghendaki nescaya Ia menjadikan kamu satu umat, tetapi Ia hendak menguji kamu apa yang telah disampaikan kepada kamu. Oleh itu berlumba-lumbalah kamu membuat kebaikan. Kepada Allah jualah tempat kembali kamu semuanya, maka Ia (ie. bukan kamu) akan memberitahu kamu apa yang kamu berselisihan padanya. (5:48)
"Spiritual But Not Religious"
TYPES OF COMMUNITY DISCUSSION ONLY
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No. | Spiritual | Religion |
---|---|---|
1. | Science/spiritual laws based | Faith based |
2. | Spirituality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told | Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right |
3. | Spirituality invites you to reason it all, to question it all and to decide your actions and assume the consequences | Religion has a dogmatic and unquestionable assembly of rules that need to be followed without question |
4. | Truth discovery | Truth knowledge |
5. | Experience based | Belief system |
6. | Non-doctrine oriented | "Good/evil" doctrine |
7. | Authentic self | Conditioned self |
8. | Spirituality is based on freedom | Religion is based on fear |
9. | Joyous living | Narrow creeds |
10. | Personal belief/value system | Dictated beliefs/conditioned minds |
11. | Practice of behavior | Practice of worship |
12. | Spiritual practices such as meditating, listening to music, and hiking | Religious practices such as prayer, reading the Quran/Bible/Torah, and rituals |
13. | It is part of each person that searches for finding the answers to life's essential questions about purpose, meaning, worth and wonder, often in quest of an ultimate value or the holy | It is typically experienced within a social institution with commonly shared traditions, sacred texts, beliefs, and worship practices. Religious institutions usually have a governing structure with designated leaders |
14. | Spiritual development | Worship |
15. | Self-directed | Authority-directed |
16. | People's inherent goodness | People's inherent sinfulness |
17. | Present oriented: Heaven is a state of mind | Future oriented: Heaven is a place you go with you die |
18. | Inside God | Outside God |
19. | Internal divinity | External divinity |
20. | Belief that the divine is within us all | Belief in superhuman power outside of you, the creator of the universe |
21. | Individualistic focused | Community focused |
22. | The emphasis is on the individual | The emphasis is on the institution |
23. | Human relationships | Brick/mortar temple |
24. | Less formal, unorthodox | Formal, orthodox organized |
25. | Modernized | Traditional |
26. | Inclusive | Exclusive |
27. | Formless | Structured |
28. | Spirituality is for those who have already been in hell | Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell |
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