I believe that spirituality is like the ocean. It is beautiful, dangerous, mysterious, scary, unpredictable and full of wonder. Religion is like a man made pool. It still contains water, but it is limited by the boundaries designed by it's creator.
I'm not saying religions are necessarily bad, though. In fact I think being part of a religion can be a great place to start a spiritual journey. We can't jump into the ocean without knowing how to swim and how to protect ourselves against it's infinite dangers.
But I think part of spiritual evolution is letting go of the confines of what we are told to believe then experiencing for ourselves the wild, untamed spirituality that existed long before mankind could hold a pen.
Of course if we choose to stay in the 'pool' then all well and good. But I don't think anyone should prevent another from daring to step out of the pool and into the ocean.
Bronwyn
Update 18/3/2013. This is interesting:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ed-and-deb-shapiro/religion-and-spirituality_b_967951.html
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