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.

What is the difference between spirituality and religion?

And if every religion rejects all other Gods isn’t that rather similar in some ways to the atheists’ position?
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exactly. if every religion claims that their god is the right one, doesn’t that clearly show that there may be none at all ?? religion is a stupid fairytale concept. people should seriously wake up from this delusion.

Please do not just claim that it feels right. Every religion feels right to the people in it.
I mean, what proved to you that this is the one, true, guaranteed, truth?
An example of this is….
Muslims and Catholics are do not agree, and are opposites on several things, but both have people that believe in their religion so much that that will kill, and die for it. Both can not be true, so at least one, possibly both, feel right, but are not right.
Disregarding the "feeling right" what proof do you have that your religion is the truth?

Any religion – it is the opium for the people.
People by nature of the soul – egoists. Everybody wants to live forever.
Having something if not here, but at least somewhere after.
Those men of genius, who came first thought of to create a paradise in heavens and hell under the earth, in fact, nothing particularly clever not invented. They just gave people something that people yearn for. And people want – immortality. And they – got this. At least in the form of faith in this beautiful nonsense. People do not want ugly truth. They want a fairy tale.

Sparks from the fire, too, might wants to be eternal. But it goes into nothingness under the pressure of imminent rule: "Nothing is eternal under the Moon."

Nothing is eternal under the Moon
and nothing new.
And everything associated with you,
just word – a moment of the toon.

Questions I ask in the Religion and Spirituality section directed to atheists often get 25 or more responses. Then I got to wondering why atheists are interested in answering questions that are on the topic of religion and spirituality.

I am here because I enjoy discussing and debating religion and spirituality, I enjoy learning about religion and spirituality, and I enjoy replying to the questions people ask of atheists.

Some people have religion and no spirituality.
Some people have no religion and plenty of spirituality.
What do you think?

So maybe a Christian list, an Athiest list, and a Spiritual list. That leaves the two warring factions in their own corner, with spiritually interested people of neither sect free to roam through their thoughts in peace.

Come on people. Lets think about the hateful and spiteful things being said here. I have never asked you to accept my religious views other than to accept my rigbht to hold them. No one here has suggested hell for me, or damnation, but I figure if I am honest that will come in time. I thought Christians were supposed to be experts at love, not hate. Why ever would I respect those who get violent and condemning every time someone elects to say a different truth?

My dad’s birthday is coming up and I would like to get him a book. He is interested in science and spirituality, would anyone know of any good books?
He isn’t that serious, he just likes to read about it

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

Considering Mersault’s clear nihilistic view towards life, do you think he ever even wonders about whether there is a God? Do you see spirituality in other parts of the book?

The Stranger, The Outsider, (L’Étranger) (1942), by Albert Camus, is one of the most famous French novels of the twentieth century and is among the best literary expositions of the absurdity of human existence in an indifferent universe. Philosophically, it is an existential novel, despite Camus not considering himself an existentialist. The Stranger is Meursault, an alienated, anomic French man who kills a native Arab man in French Algiers. At his trial for murder, the prosecution describes him as a remorseless killer; he is convicted and awaits execution. In prison, Meursault accepts his fate, because it is his only true option; neither suicide, nor faith in God are options once he fully grasps the absurdity of the world in which he lives. The story occurs in Algiers, before the Second World War, a locale from Camus’s life.

http://www.bookrags.com/The_Stranger_%28…

http://www.bookrags.com/notes/str/

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/stranger/

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monk…

http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/T…

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barr…

I like the topic of religion and spirituality and was wondering whether anyone has any ideas for me and if its even a good idea. someone already has a ‘free-thinkers’ club in my school which looks at things from a transcendentalist point of view. I want a club but something that won’t cause any conflict and can be rewarding.

A Freethinker’s club that’s transcendentalist? Wow, I can hardly think of anything that agrees less with free thought.

Anyway, to your question:

If you want to avoid conflict, you’ve chosen a subject remarkably inimical to your goal. If you make a Christian club, your Christians will do theological battle against themselves. If you make a more universally religious club, all of your religions will contend against all the others.

The only avenue for success I see is to make a club that discusses religion’s place in history and social science from a completely rationalist perspective—that is, the members don’t believe in the supernatural, just study those who do.

Otherwise, you’re inviting the conflict you want to avoid.

One where questions of religion and spirituality are actually asked and answered, instead of the same old tired sarcastic arguments lobbed back and forth.

Not that I don’t enjoy a bit of sarcasm every now & then.

Huh? There IS a "questions" category in R&S. The form and manner of the questions and answers are fairly liberal, subject to "Community Guidelines" and/or Yahoo "Terms of Service."

If you’re tired of the "same old tired sarcastic arguments lobbed back and forth," then I suggest that you cancel your account and find something else to do. Leave the rest of us alone to be as sarcastic as we want to be – theist and non-theist alike.

Spirituality is not Religion, so if you are an atheist and consider yourself spiritual, please tell me your views on it. NOT to argue, just wondering your opinion.

Well, I’m a Buddhist, and we have no concept of god. We generally seek enlightenment from within.