What is the difference between spirituality and religion? What about spirituality and ethics?
What is the difference between spirituality and religion?
I’ve always been confused between the differences of these three things. Although fairly similar, I don’t think they’re the same thing. If you had to say, what do you think the difference between spirituality, religion, and ethics are?
Detailed explanations and maybe even examples would be well appreciated 
in my opinion, believing life had a creator doesn’t make a person spiritual
i think you can believe that someone made dna, without believing that people have souls, or an afterlife.
i think that being spiritual doesn’t make one automatically religious, you can believe we have a soul/spirit, without believing in god.
a religious person usually believes both, and has a set system of practices and specific beliefs based on that belief. religion usually has it’s own set of ethical standards.
i think a person can be ethical regardless of which category they fall into,
unfortunately the word itself means many things to many people.
religion is following the rules, rituals, and traditions of a defined religion. following the holy books, believing in gods word, and going to a holy place of worship regularly.
ethics is the set of earthly morals to follow. whats right and wrong from the human perspective.
spirituality is a combo of both. it usually loosely follows at least one religion, takes the basics of it, and blends it with worldly ethics.
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Religion: Dogma, actions, and activities carried out on the large scale for supposed spiritual benefit of the individual
spirituality: PERSONAL beliefs, actions, re. God, soul, living, and dying
ethics: A set of rules that set the standard for something, as in a profession, personal conduct, etc..
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The original meaning of religion is the same but has been changed to mean institutions.
Religio means to bond with God or truth
Ethics is the 10 Commandment. The Holy Spirit speaks to you directly without translating life through rules.
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Religion implies an organized system of clergy, doctrine, ceremony, etc. So Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Mormonism, Scientology are all religions because they are organizations based on faith.
Spirituality is a general idea that there is something ‘more’ than the physical world, a belief in the supernatural. This might be a god or gods, but it might just be a universal energy or spirit.
Ethics are a sense of ‘good’ behavior. They usually involve following accepted social rules for the betterment of society. They are mutually exclusive from either religion or spirituality. The Catholic church’s actions to hide pedophile priests show that religious and spiritual people can act very unethically. (And, ethics are not based on the 10 Commandments, that is a myth perpetuated by the religious right.)
It is now popular for people to say they are "spiritual, but not religious", Meaning they feel there might be or is a god or other supernatural forces at work in the world, but don’t feel a need to be part of a religion.
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in my opinion, believing life had a creator doesn’t make a person spiritual
i think you can believe that someone made dna, without believing that people have souls, or an afterlife.
i think that being spiritual doesn’t make one automatically religious, you can believe we have a soul/spirit, without believing in god.
a religious person usually believes both, and has a set system of practices and specific beliefs based on that belief. religion usually has it’s own set of ethical standards.
i think a person can be ethical regardless of which category they fall into,
unfortunately the word itself means many things to many people.
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