Relgion Research Paper

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Religion is an established way of living one's life, while one's spiturality is way more complex and inherent than that of religion. To me they are not the same thing. They are two words that interchangeably get used together alot but not the same thing. Relgion is a set of dogmas, beliefs, rituals, precices and of memebership, while spirtuality is something internal. It is both universal in that we all have it but personal in a sense that it is unique to us. It is our sense of being essentially. As a kid I was taught that if I went to chruch and if I prayed to God and accepted God I would go to heaven. I was tauht that my spirtuality and my relgion go hand and hand.

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