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The way liberals like to toss around the word "spirituality" has little to do with Christianity (the only religion I can speak to) because the latter requires them to their faith in something bigger than themselves, which of course requires that they first acknowledge that there is something bigger than they are, and that they are not the end all. Liberals, being thinly disguised socialists, have a hard time grasping a higher power than themselves and their own intellects.

I suspect that when someone bubbles that they are "spiritual", they really mean that are capable of being awed. By the world around us, by a baby's laughter, by a beautiful spring day. They may even admit there are things they do not understand. This IS the Holy Spirit working in them.

But they are blind to the next step: that God is responsible for all those things.

Then there is the actual liberal agenda, which wants to do away with the concept of God altogether, but recognizes that people are capable of being awed. So until they find a way to get the state to take credit for babies' laughter, they push an amorphous "spirituality".

I suspect that when someone bubbles that they are "spiritual", they really mean that are capable of being awed. By the world around us, by a baby's laughter, by a beautiful spring day. They may even admit there are things they do not understand. This IS the Holy Spirit working in them.

But they are blind to the next step: that God is responsible for all those things.

Excellent analysis.

But they are blind to the next step: that God is responsible for all those things.

Just a thought at the end of the day...

" The aesthetes touched the last insane limits of language in their eulogy on lovely things. The thistledown made them weep; a burnished beetle brought them to their knees. Yet their emotion never impressed me for an instant, for this reason, that it never occurred to them to pay for their pleasure in any sort of symbolic sacrifice.

Men (I felt) might fast forty days for the sake of hearing a blackbird sing. Men might go through fire to find a cowslip. Yet these lovers of beauty could not even keep sober for the blackbird. They would not go through common Christian marriage by way of recompense to the cowslip. Surely one might pay for extraordinary joy in ordinary morals.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde."

G K Chesterton, of course.