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Spirituality and Religion…Is There A Difference And Do We Have A Choice?
By David Uriel Ibarra, November 23, 2005

There’s been an on going argument since man began to acknowledge a benevolent being, within the modern world, that being religious meant you were also spiritual. But is this fact or fallacy? Through the years we’ve seen many nations of different religions claim to be very spiritual because of their religious practices and actions. Yet we’re still having wars amongst ourselves over what religion is the best one (belief systems). We are no closer to reaching our spiritual goals then we were before the advent of organized religion. But now with the rise of “New Age” beliefs, some doubt has been cast onto the human consciousness about what is truly spiritual and can being religious equate to being spiritual.

The spiritual path is just that… a path, of which there is only two, positive and negative. The positive path will lead back to our point of origin, which is home (Heaven). The negative path will lead us on endless turns and dead ends until we (our souls) choose the positive path. We all choose what path we’re going on before coming into this world. But we’ll talk more on this issue later. Now that we’ve chosen our path how do we walk on it? This is where religion steps in.

The religion that you practice can be viewed as how you walk down the street. Even atheism is a form of walking a chosen path. There is no right or wrong way to walk, although there are plenty of people that will tell you otherwise. As long as you are walking forward toward your destination then you’re making progress. The same is true with whichever religion you practice. It doesn’t matter what religion you practice as long as you’re moving forward toward your destination…home.

Now there’s some contention among most people that they are not able to choose the path (spirituality) they want and how to walk that path (religion) because it was chosen by there parents when they were only children. But if we look at the bigger picture, which includes karma, past lives, etc., the soul looks at the potential future of the body it’s going to incarnate into and decides whether it will learn what it needs to learn so it can fulfill its karmic debt, experience physicality, and to fulfill God’s will according to the contract created and approved between itself and God. So, in essence, we have made a choice on what path and the way we want to walk that path when we chose to incarnate into this world.

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