BuckyB93 wrote:OK. Not to get all religious and stuff but you can't deny that there is a power greater than humans can you?
Call it nature, call it physics call it God, call it... whatever... There is something that is beyond us mortals. A Higher Power... a power greater than ourselves. In my opinion, there is a distinct difference between religion, spirituality and faith.
The following is just my opinion:
- Religion is an organized set of beliefs and practices. There are many flavors. Some prefer one over the other but if you boil it down and strip out the extremes, they all follow the same premise. Don't be an a-hole, live and let live, help out each other where needed and where you can.
- Spirituality is an individual thing. It's unique to each individual. What you feel inside.. your spirit might be different than my spirit. Maybe they mesh, maybe they don't. You can't deny that all living creatures have something inside that is intangible, something that makes us who we are and what we are inside.
- Faith is hard to define, for me. Faith is a not directly tied to religion or spirituality. It's sort hope that what I believe in will eventually happen. I have faith that the human race will survive. I have faith that if I do the right thing, the right things will happen for me. I have faith that if I drop a 10 lb weight on bgz's head he'll be knocked out long enough for him not to kick me in the nads.
There very well could be a “higher power”. At least for all thing things that might mean.
But if we are talking about a creator, an overseer, well - no one knows.
Yes - there are many that as a personal truth “know”. But it is by no means demonstrated.
Many feel that the “proof” is all around us because they assume that our world required and intelligence to come into existence. But again, this is not demonstrated beyond the fact that it makes sense to some.
It is telling that so many will take the word of the clergy and disregard the word of scientists.
Very telling in deed.