Spiritual but not religious

[an email]

That Wikipedia article on Spiritual but not Religious overall is a good summation that defines much of the seemingly disparate non-Christian beliefs we encounter around us.

I go back to saying they can't, or they refuse, to see sin and evil in themselves and in the world.

Much of the sin in us is of the nature of 'baked in' from birth, so we have to think about it to see it. I.e. original sin as being our very constitution. Like the Work [Fourth Way - Ouspensky] teaching that some lies or lying are integral, like thinking we're awake when we clearly are not. Or thinking we can do things when things just happen. Our lack of will and our sequestered will are part of our fallen nature (we have will to choose an apple or an orange but not to choose to recognize our Creator, that requires the Spirit and the word of God acting on and in us).

This is why the 'spiritual but not religious' people are naive. They don't know what they don't know. They need the language of the Bible to be able to begin to see things in themselves and in the world they currently can't see. - C.