It is a mistake to confuse spirituality with religion. The institutional dogmas of the religions do not speak to many now and we need a new symbolic container for our spirituality.
In essence, all the major religions say the same thing: The kingdom of God is within you and love one another.
In the past, we needed to project a father god out there. Now we don't want that and seem to want consumerism to be our gods.
Yet the spiritual spark is alive and well and deep within us. Many people have spiritual experiences that are not church-based particularly around important events in their life.
Everything changes and I suspect Jesus, Mohammed, Moses and Buddha would all be happier with our individual searches rather than the bigotry of fundamentalism in all its forms.
Dione Smith Email address supplied
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