"spiritual but not religous"

[mikew262]

That is not in question.

My point is we are called to discern. To draw appropriate conclusions as in understanding that vague notions of spirituality that contradict reason and revelation should be seen as objective error.

Why is it objective error? Why does it contradict reason and revelation? Whose reason and revelation? Yours? The Church? God’s? If you say God’s, how do you know?

 

[fix]

Why is it objective error?

Because we know that it contradicts what the Church teaches.

Why does it contradict reason and revelation?

See above.

Whose reason and revelation?

God.

Yours?

I accept that Christ founded a Church He speaks through on these matters.

The Church? God’s? If you say God’s, how do you know?

Do you accept Christ founded one Church that has the fullness of truth and left a living authority that has the power to bind and loose and safeguard the deposit of faith?

 

[jmcrae]

It is between that person and God, and at judgement time, God will either condemn or reward him for his actions. We all will face this time.

Yes. And in preparation for this time that all of us must face, God in His infinite mercy has provided us with an unfailing Church that tells us without error what we are supposed to do and how we are supposed to behave, so that when we face that time, we will have done what God wanted us to do.

 

[Liberalsaved]

I like the way Fulton J. Sheen put it:
“To say we do not want dogma in religion is to assert a dogma.”

There’s no escaping “rules” or “regulations” in spirituality. People who announce to the world their spirituality “but no religion” are timid thinkers or ignorant “noodle-brains”.

What about those who don’t go around blabbing it? Who feel it’s something private? Are they also ignorant?

 

[havemercy]

What about those who don’t go around blabbing it? Who feel it’s something private? Are they also ignorant?

Ignorant of the fact that they believe in “no rules” when that very thought is a rule of their spiritual philosophy? Maybe they know well that their view is self-defeating and they persist in error, and are therefore not ignorant. They’d be pretty silly though.