At the outset itself, I clarify that religion and spirituality are not different things but two sides of a coin. When we speak for one we are, at the same time, speaking for the other. While the religion is society-oriented, the spirituality is individual-oriented. Both assume existence of divinities and are based on super-natural perceptions.
Religious persons go to their places of worship to practise their man-made faith in man-made God and the spiritualists go to their places of meditation to practise their faith in man-made spiritualism, both practise faiths devised by by the mankind. Both the faiths produce some metaphysical effects on the minds of practitioners and charge them emotionally.
Religion
It seems that people attend religious services of their choosing for diverse reasons of which I can name a few. Some want to be closer to their God, some others like fellowships of other believers in those services, while most others feel they must attend because this was inculcated into their minds right from their childhoods and they are terrified - if they don’t attend they would be struck down by their God, destroyed and cast into Hell. Some want to learn and understand more about their own religious heritage and carry it forward. They have got faith and trust in what their parents or their caretakers taught them about their religion and they feel a certain obligation in following in their good parents’ and grandparents’ footsteps, come hell or high water.
Most of the creatures have an instinctive desire to produce offsprings and guide them to go the way they were taught to go, because they do not know any thing better than that and because the alternatives seem to be so daunting and so forbidding. Ordinary people don’t have faith on evolution of human mind over time. So, they maintain the status quo because it is safer to do than to take a chance on something new that may or may not be true or good in the spiritual or the religious sense. After all, isn’t it better to err on the side of what I was initially taught than to err on a side of what I think might be correct?
To take chance or gambling or betting on what is considered a sure-shot by majority and by the ancestors is considered to be a better option, irrespective of what one’s mind says. So, people place their faith in God and believe in waiting to return to that God from where they suppose they had come from. Some take the path of religions while some others follow spiritualism.
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