WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? I’m Spiritual but I Don’t Have a Religion

Human beings are capable of highly intelligent reasoning, to be sure, but we also have an amazing capacity to believe two things that are contradictory as equally true. We also have a tendency sometimes to compare apples to oranges as if they are the same.

You may not worship the God of the Bible, but you do make something in your life your ultimate authority.

Such is the case when someone claims something along the line of this familiar statement: “Well, I’m not religious, but I am spiritual person.”

There is often an inference lurking behind that sentiment that suggests being “religious” is backward and primitive, while being “spiritual” is enlightened and sophisticated.

Well, what about that? Does it make any difference if a person is one or the other? As the Colson Center’s Joseph Backholm explains in the following 5:43 entry in the superb “What Would You Say” video series, both the person who claims to be spiritual and the one that is religious has an underlying faith of some sort and what amounts to a moral code based on a conception of ultimate truth.

And that includes atheists and agnostics, whether they realize it or not!