"The thing that bothered me about the movie I reviewed here the other day, "I Origins" is they were a bit naive about the difference between religion and spirituality. The Pitt character is actually arguing spirituality not religion. But the writer even had one Indian character ask him if he is "religious"
This is a great point, Bhairitu! And it is something that I always felt was gift of walking the "spiritual" path and being a meditator, is that one begins to make clear distinctions about things and find ways to clarify it. For a number of years I have been irritated by the use of spirituality being used as a synonym for religion. It is not its equivalent. Joseph Campbell and CG Jung were great at pointing that out. If anything, they are antonyms and mean very different things. Kind of like the maps is not the territory. One (religion) may be a discription of the other (the territory), but the experience of the two is very different. I think this is why the ability to discriminate (as in seeing distinction, especially fine distinctions, and not the bigoted type of discrimination) comes about with meditation and spiritual growth. Distinction is also not the sole providence of meditation, either. It's part of growth and flowering of the mind and awareness.
