What is the difference between spirituality, religion, and church?

The response trades on an important insight found in Buddhist teachings.



The IRFWP link http://bit.ly/rgwaBN provides the entire response to this question.

Amplify’d from www.irfwp.org

Recently a Quora participant posted this question: "What is the difference between spirituality, religion, and church? I have heard people say they are all the same (almost like a three in one) and others say they are very different ideas."

This is an excellent and important question.

especially important in our current time because a great many people have interest in and seriousness toward the spiritual dimensions of life (both personally and communally), but have come to have serious misgivings about what they perceive or understand to be "religion," and "church." Heard constantly "I'm spiritual, but I am not religious." If pressed, the average person who describes him or herself so often is incapable of explaining this declaration any further, but it becomes clear that the core impulse in the declaration is that "religion" is bad, but "spirituality" is good. Read more at www.irfwp.org

 

See this Amp at http://bit.ly/o6CPQW