I identify with "Spiritual but not religious" as do most of my friends

SBNR is commonly used^[8][9] to describe the demographic also known as unchurched, none of the above, more spiritual than religious, spiritually eclectic, unaffiliated, freethinkers, or spiritual seekers.
end partial quote from:

Spiritual but not religious - Wikipedia , the free...

 

/For, example, I would not say I am unchurched because my parents were ministers of a Church in Los Angeles on Hope STreet from the time I was 6 to 12 years old. I sang in the church choir from the time I was 12 years old until I was 21 when the church and I parted ways because I was too progressive for them.

I played the Steinway Concert Grand Piano in my church from the time I was 12 playing church songs. I played the Baldwin Organ with a full set of pedals from age 14 in the Church including graduating from the then "I Am School" in my Senior year only in Santa Fe, New Mexico. So, i would not say I am unchurched.

 

But after trying another religion similar to the one I was raised in and seeing Churches just are not honest enough for me to stay with or be a part of, I realized all churches like businesses cannot be anything but hypocritical or self serving like businesses. So, You really cannot have a church that isn't self serving, hypocritcal and a money grubber stealing and coaxing the money from all their people until they are impoverished and dead.

So, in this sense all churches must be about only money and not ever about God. That any church is about God first is a lie. Churches are businesses. They are about money first, last and always. Anything else is a lie.

So, don't ever expect to find God in any church. I don't. When I do find God in a church (like in 160 Rue Du Bac in Paris with Saint Catherine Laboure I am always incredibly surprised.

One is much more likely to find God in the Wilderness in a beautiful place than in any church anywhere. This is always a given.

However, I also identify with all these things as a part of the definition of "Spiritual but not Religious" (more spiritual than religious, spiritually eclectic, unaffiliated, freethinkers, or spiritual seekers)

But, the religions I like most right now are the Catholic Church and Tibetan Buddhism. Why is this?

Because these religions take care of families. (Often protestant churches get so caught up in punishing people for not doing one thing or another that they totally defeat the purpose of being spiritual in the first place.)

Here is how I like to put this: "The spirit of the law gives life but the letter of the law only kills".