DEFINITIONS OF SPIRITUAL AND MORAL:
Deeds define. Deeds differ from dictionaries.
Boy molesting priests are said to be spiritual and moral. Little boys are told to hush up about where the priests' hands were, or they will ruin the reputation of the spiritual and moral church.
Beautiful young ladies, who had refused sex with fat, gross
church elders, and now face charges of witchcraft, are told to hush up about where the elder's hands were, or they will ruin the reputation of the spiritual and moral church. The community supports ugly elders against innocent women (after all....who is more moral?).
The Religious Right sanctimoniously supported the man they put in office, President W. Bush, as he
murdered 1,000,000 innocent Iraqis (well....they were located somewhere in the Middle East, so they deserved to die). W. Bush didn't wait for proof of terrorism. Moreover, knowing full well that
Niger was not involved in terrorism, W. Bush (and Cheney) had
asked Wilson to lie about Niger in order to create a war, and when Wilson refused, they
outed Plame (CIA wife) via Robert Novak. (source: below). All this was on intention
lies about intel, and the
torture camps were
behind the back of "most of" Congress (some Democrats and Republicans knew and were silent).
Plame affair - Wikipedia
What do modern events have to do with the definition of spirituality and morality?
Definitions continue to define as deeds continue to define them.
Professor of law, John Woo of Chapman University, as attorney for W. Bush,
redefined the term "torture," so that W. Bush could deny that torture ever existed. But, Adolph Hitler could have also denied that torture occurred, since torture of any kind no longer existed after one
tells lies by redefining terms.
Thus, one could
redefine "spiritual" and "moral" and tell lies about their meaning.
Taliban religious and political leaders of Afghanistan captured bin Laden and top aides just 9 days after the 911 attack, offered to turn them over to the US if they had proof of terrorism, so W. Bush attacked his allies, the Taliban. Then W. Bush
bore false witness (calling one of them the "doctor of death)," in order to get support for his unjust war. W. Bush said that he was "fightin' evil" and he was opposing the "Axis of Evil."
As long as people think that they are fighting evil, they project the false idea that they are spiritual and moral, even though they are using Satan's motus operandi of pretending to be on a holy mission of God.
Spiritualism is supposed to be about the religious belief in the soul (not about the physical world).
Moral is supposed to be about good and bad.
Satan rules by fear (phony Orange alerts), greed (lower tax for the rich, ignore the homeless), lies (pretends to fight evil, though he is the essence of evil, and redefines the truth). Follow the trail of dead bodies, torn by war, and starving homeless people, and you will find Satan.
Pastors often use such fear tactics (visions of the fires of hell) to scare people into following them.
Pastors often use greed, to ask for all of our money, with the promise that somehow God will give them back ten times as much money. "Cast thy bread upon the waters."
Jesus objected that churches have expensive bobbles, and lock their doors to the homeless (as churches do today).
On His sermon on the mount, Jesus said
"judge not, lest ye be judged." But, if we don't judge who Satan is, and recognize Satan by his deeds, we risk following Satan, and leaving a trail of dead from wars and those dying of hunger.
We must judge Satan to reject Satan.
We must open the eyes of others, as you have done, to be truly spiritual and moral.