Religion vs Spirituality (my opinion)

Why is it that we always feel the need to challenge one another? Whether it is in the food we eat, or the way we dress, or the way we speak? We were all created individually yet this has never been celebrated, only criticized. Take for example the way we choose to live our lives. Some choose to worship a God through religion, while others choose the more spiritual approach.
I find that for two sets of lifestyles which generally have the same ending, we are always battling against the other to say that our way of life is "the right way" or more fulfilling. I say both are man simply trying to impose his opinions on others (as always).

Religion is a framework to a way of living life. It is a set of rules that guides its follower and owns its followers. Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Judaism, Buddhism and Jainism are some of the well-known religions of the world. They take the form of traditions and customs, which decide the way we live our lives. In totality, religion is what sets our lives in a direction, and in a large way grooms us. Spirituality is not bound by any rules. It does not follow any religion and neither does it adhere to any set of principles. Spirituality is the art and science of self-realization. It's a practice of knowing each part of your body. Being spiritual means awakening the very spirit of being who you are.

Both spirituality and religion aim to take an individual towards the ultimate goal of life.

I consider myself a new Christian to the religious world. I have always been raised with the foundation of God but have realized as I've gotten older that the bible had answers to a lot of the personal questions I had, and if it didn't it gave me something to believe in, therefore I choose to worship God. We all want something or someone to believe in. It means a lot to say that we are not alone in the world and that some presence out in the universe created us uniquely and individually out of sheer love, just like our parents. If we take a look around at everything that was created and how far we've come as mankind from the days where we wore nothing but cloth and lived in caves, its bazaar to think that all we have now is the result of evolution. But again, this is just my opinion.

So I leave you with this:

"What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today." -Tom Robbins