Spiritual But Not Religious

It's pretty common nowadays to hear people describe themselves as "spiritual but not religious." I would argue that it is inconsistent with human nature to be unreligious. When a person acts in any realm of his life, he is being religious. How's that again? Yes, when a person acts, he is being religious. Any action implies intention, and intention is based on some thought (maybe not much of one). Thinking means deciding among an infinity of options to take, and doing one of them. The one chosen has some value over the others, no matter how insignificant that value is. Therefore, religion is doing what we perceive to be the act of highest value among the options. So, if I'm a National Security Advisor testifying before Congress, and I shade the truth, how is that religious? It's religious because I believe that having power or having a good image or some other such thing is the higest value at that moment. Hey, I didn't say that being religious was always the right thing, just that it's always the human thing.
- posted by Marcos @ 8:25 PM