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DrDln · 05-04-2017, 07:31 PM

It’s religion based on spirituality, which helps many of us deal with ups and downs in life and keeps the mind tranquil. And it’s spirituality which helps us deal with life-crises.

There is no value anymore in articles that gave titles such as “Is God Dead?” If he was, the likely culprit was science, whose triumph was deemed so complete that "what cannot be known (by scientific methods) seems uninteresting, unreal.” Now we are using science to complement our spirituality. It is this new notion that we need to explore.

American youth are returning to religion but a different kind of religion. A major poll reveals a breadth of tolerance and curiosity virtually across the religious spectrum. And everywhere, a flowering of spirituality (Newsweek, September 5, 2005, Spirituality in America). Furthermore, survey shows that more than 95 percent of Americans believe in God, while 90 percent meditate or pray (Dean Hamer, Harvard University, "The God Gene"); but regular church attendance is declining in America and Europe.

Everywhere we look, the spirituality is on the rise. In Catholic churches the worshipers pass the small hours of the night alone contemplating spiritual communion with God. God to them is just more than somebody you visit on Sunday. For those who've chosen this new flavor of Catholicism, the nourishment comes daily. Younger generation of American Muslims finds its shared faith is erasing the old boundaries that separated their immigrant parents. They are looking to achieve a more God-centered Islam. There are Jews who are seeking God in the mystical thickets of Kabbalah, in order to experience an intimate connection to the Almighty. Zen and innumerable other threads of Buddhism, whose followers seek enlightenment through meditation and prayer, find the divine within that helps them make peace with themselves. Also, in the rebirth of Pagan religions the followers look for God in the wonders of the natural world (Jerry Alder, Newsweek, 2005). Personal- transcendent experience of God is at the heart of much of what we do.

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DrDln Banned Posts: 1,527 Karma: 2349214 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Mountain House, CA Device: kindle	It’s religion based on spirituality, which helps many of us deal with ups and downs in life and keeps the mind tranquil. And it’s spirituality which helps us deal with life-crises. There is no value anymore in articles that gave titles such as “Is God Dead?” If he was, the likely culprit was science, whose triumph was deemed so complete that "what cannot be known (by scientific methods) seems uninteresting, unreal.” Now we are using science to complement our spirituality. It is this new notion that we need to explore. American youth are returning to religion but a different kind of religion. A major poll reveals a breadth of tolerance and curiosity virtually across the religious spectrum. And everywhere, a flowering of spirituality (Newsweek, September 5, 2005, Spirituality in America). Furthermore, survey shows that more than 95 percent of Americans believe in God, while 90 percent meditate or pray (Dean Hamer, Harvard University, "The God Gene"); but regular church attendance is declining in America and Europe. Everywhere we look, the spirituality is on the rise. In Catholic churches the worshipers pass the small hours of the night alone contemplating spiritual communion with God. God to them is just more than somebody you visit on Sunday. For those who've chosen this new flavor of Catholicism, the nourishment comes daily. Younger generation of American Muslims finds its shared faith is erasing the old boundaries that separated their immigrant parents. They are looking to achieve a more God-centered Islam. There are Jews who are seeking God in the mystical thickets of Kabbalah, in order to experience an intimate connection to the Almighty. Zen and innumerable other threads of Buddhism, whose followers seek enlightenment through meditation and prayer, find the divine within that helps them make peace with themselves. Also, in the rebirth of Pagan religions the followers look for God in the wonders of the natural world (Jerry Alder, Newsweek, 2005). Personal- transcendent experience of God is at the heart of much of what we do.