[geeks] Religion and the Presidency

[Phil Stracchino]

der Mouse wrote:
> What is religion to you, then?  I use the word to mean one's
> relationship with whatever deity or deities manifest in one's life.
> (One to whom there are no deities does not, by this definition, have a
> religion, and I see nothing wrong with that.)

That, honestly, sounds like what I would define as spirituality, not 
religion.

One could express the distinction this way:  Spirituality is personal 
belief in a higher power in the Universe.  Religion is standardized, 
institutionalized, formalized belief in such a higher power, in 
lock-step with a thousand other people.  Spirituality is about faith; 
religion is about churches.


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