Religion and Spirituality: Will the Health Care bill pass on Sunday?

Yes or no

Can someone give me a definition of new age spirituality?

I have found it really hard to get a good general definition of new age spirituality. So far the best I can find is:

“God is a universal power from which the entire universe is derived. In other words, rocks, trees, clouds, people, etc., are all part of God. This means when we hurt another, we hurt ourselves because we are all one”.

Are there any traditional religious traditions that have anything in common with new age spirituality? (It can’t have sprung out of nothing). That might help me.

If humanity makes it another thousand years, will religion or “spirituality” still be around?

Yes, I’ll admit that the scare quotes around the world “spirituality” indicate that I don’t have much respect for the concept.

Spirituality : What is the importance of health and wealth ?

Additional Questions:

1. Can the spiritual path be pursued if one has bad health ?
2. Can good wealth help someone to be more focused on the spiritual path?

How many atheists/agnostics can admit that religion/spirituality does do good in the world?

That religion/spirituality isn’t all bad and evil?

I’m an atheist and I can still see the value and importance that religion/spirituality play in the world. And the many good things that come out of religion/spirituality.

This question isn’t just exclusive to Christianity, Islam, or Judaism; but rather any and all forms of religion/spirituality.

when it comes to spirituality/religion, what percentage of people live what they believe?

i see people who profess what they believe when it comes to religion/spirituality, but when put to the test, they dont live it, but i have seen people whose actions are aligned with ther belief, but honestly in your opinion, what percentage of people actually walk the talk/ in harmony with there belief

Is Native Spirituality Still Practiced Anywhere?

Are the religions that indigenous populations practiced before Christian settlers arrived on their lands and converted them to Christianity still practiced anywhere or have they faded out?

I have a question if people do not mind my asking: What is your faith and what is your field of employement?

Did or does your faith or spirituality if you are not of a faith play a part in your lifes work?
I am a memeber of the healthcare field, in nursing, and yes my Catholicism plays a large part in that. I serve my God, my Savior and mankind in caring for the Elderly, the sick, and the brain damaged. I try to take the two commandments that Christ left us to heart. “Love the Lord they God, and Love thy neighbor.”
Peace Be With You,
Debra
Thank you for your polite and honest answers. This is one question where there are no WRONG answers. Thank you.

Do you think in the Spiritual sense of things women were closer to ‘Enlightenment’ before women’s liberation?

I know of course there was a terrible oppression and suppression of women in achieving their goals and dreams. In the eighteenth and nineteenth century they thought a woman novelist or playwright or actress was about as ridiculous as a dog dancing on its hind legs in a dress. Women were a mockery essentially even though there were instances where women transgressed the bounds of their gender like Ann Radcliffe and Austen and things. In a way though, when society was so structured, women were closer to the spiritual centre of life. Women were encouraged to be ego less as they did not predicate their whole worth on being a doctor or lawyer or politician. They were the ‘other’ to man. As inequitable as that might have been, I think the human ego is the source of so many hardships and cruelties and abuse in our society from workplace bullying to ruthless competition to the crabs in the bucket mentality to entire megalomaniacal dictatorships pretty much. In a Buddhist text I read it stated that because of our previous position in life as nurturers and not breadwinners women were more spiritually evolved than men because we reliquished worldliness and were encouraged to be peacemakers and compassionate and kind and all those other qualities espoused by world religions. These days, women and everyone else actually has become narcissistic and egotistical. Several psychological studies have indicated as such including one re: my own generation (21) who are said to be the least empathetic and most selfish, entitled, self interested group of individuals there ever was. In a way, doesn’t Western society encourage empty ambitions that often come at the expense of our characters and spirits if you believe as such? The idea that women have now gained the whole world but lost our souls? Or if you have seen the Michael Caine film and book by Willy Russel ‘Educating Rita’ where this working class woman attends Uni courses and where at the start of the film she is delightfully natural and unaffected, by the end she has become everything the Professor most hates about his Uni culture. She is antagonistic, argumentative, belligerent and intellectually arrogant. She insults people she has a different point of view with.She has quite literally ‘gained the whole of literature and lost her soul’. She is not a better human being. So I ask, where women’s liberation is concerned, is it another case of gaining the whole world and losing one’s spirit? Are we farther away from Enlightenment and Spirituality now than we ever have been as mothers and wives by contending with the world on a daily basis and competing with our peers?

edit: APOLOGIES FOR WALL OF WRITING.

How do you define the difference between religion and spirituality? ?

For you personally how does religion differ to spirituality and how is it the same? Are you religious AND spiritual or just one or the other? If you are religious does that mean you adhere to one particular doctrine, eg. Christianity, and follow the bible, go to church. OR Muslin, believe in the Koran and visit the mosque? If you are religious do you HAVE to go to church?

Personally I don’t follow any set religion, but I consider myself to be spiritual. Just wondered how “religious” people view religion and spirituality?