What is Religion?
Religion is generally described as a belief in, or the worship of, a god or gods and also as a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny.


The American Heritage Dictionary describes religion as:
(1) Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe. (2) A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship. (3) The life or condition of a person in a religious order. (4) A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader. (5) A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.

Conclusion
We thus can clearly state that religion is a model that believes in the existence of god or gods i.e.supernatural power, worships it and follows the convention of values and practises based on the teachings of a spiritual leader.

Confusion
The meaning of the word "God" or "Supernatural power", what does this mean and what are its connotation. The words can range from meaning 'Creator of the universe' to a 'diety that controls an element like air, water, fire' etc. which further compounds the problem. Most religions do agree that God is without gender though the words 'he' or 'father ' is ascribed for communicative purposes and does not state that God is a male or female for that matter.

Conclusion
We can however be sure that whoever uses the term 'God' points towards the one who:
(1) Created humans - gave them life.
(2) Created worlds (and everything within) that human can comprehend either through their senses or in their imagination.



What is Spirituality?
Spirituality is described as that which deals with the self or the soul aspect and what it entails in becoming a complete entity of which i.e. being human is just a cog in the wheel and in achieving closer connection with god, divinity, spirit, nature etc.

So we can say that...
Where religion focuses on the individual obeying or submitting his will before the divine will, spirituality focuses in finding the connection between the self to the one divine and in trying to unearth the difference between itself and infinity only to end up finding none but realizing that infinity is in self and the self in infinity.

Confusion
There are no set beliefs or values that give spirituality a distinct identity unlike religion, hence spirtuality as a word can mean different things which have nothing in common to bind it. This is the way where one becomes his own spiritual master and one man's poison can mean other man's meat even if it enters the same stomach with the same functionality.

Conclusion
Spirituality is a model or a system that is designed around the self rather than the other way round as in religion, hence, there exists no path of spirituality, everything is spirituality as long as the goal is to connect with the supreme energy. Here truly the end justifies the means.

Religion and Spirituality
Religion (the creed, the dogma) has always been at loggerheads with spirituality (individual truth over creed) though the latter is the foundation stone on which the former establishes itself. Religion today is an institution that one purchases a membership into in exchange for a reward whereas in spirituality the search of the pilgrim is a reward in itself.

While the one sacrifices the self for a greater self of the morrow, the other loses the self to find the only self that ever mattered.

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