Religious vs Spiritual

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If you are in a religion you are religious. If you are outside of religion but
follow God then you are considered spiritual.

Yes people in religion can be also spiritual, but you have placed yourself in an environment that is mixture of religion and spirituality which can cause confusion and limits within the heart. If you consider yourself spiritual but you serve as a devoted and submitted member of a certain denomination within a certain religion, then you still have limits on what you can or cannot believe, how you operate in accordance within your religion, and what is considered "acceptable" within that denomination of religion. 

Some key points religion needs to thrive and survive:
  1. Convince you that you NEED that religion to live, survive, get closer to God.
  2. Convince you that you are guilty and shameful and need God only through that particular religion to save you. God forbid that God save you outside of religion's limits and God forbid you no longer see yourself as guilty and shameful.
  3. Convince you that religion holds the full truth in its entirety and is not missing anything at all. 
  4. Convince you without the religion you will burn in hell for eternity and others will do so you must spread this religion to everyone, even if it means conquering and killing them, at least they have the truth by force rather than not at all.
  5. Convince you that you can’t understand the truth on your own, you must have people within your religion tell you, explain to you right and wrong, and set the limits for you to follow. 
  6. Convince you to see life completely shaped by that religion being true.
If one religion can do this, you could become its devoted servant all the days of your life which is neither bad nor good, it's just the path you've chosen. Is life easier without limits? 

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