I have tried and tried to write a post about religion and spirituality in the past couple of months and all I've ended up with so far has been wasted keystrokes.     I probably spent the first 40 years of my life believing that religion and spirituality were one in the same, to be religious was to be spiritual and vice versa. The next seven years I spent questioning both and over the past ten years, I began to realize that religion is the antithesis of spirituality.     After I read a post in another blog the other day I knew I would never be able to write mine. Sometimes somebody has already written it. I could never write mine without stealing something from his so I'm just reposting his.            Religion vs. Spirituality     Religion is retrospective. Religion looks backward to the faiths of our fathers. We inherit religion from the graves of a thousand dead men. So few who call themselves “religious” have actually stopped for a moment and asked themselves, “Wh

    “A lot of what this — young man did was clearly against the law. But the fact that it was against the law did not prevent it from happening.”     Wrong again Mitt, from the knife to the assault rifle and the bullet proof vest to the high capacity magazine, every purchase was well within our laws.     “Well, I don’t know that I’m gonna be able to find a way to prevent people who want to provide harm, from being able to purchase things that could carry out that harm.”     I don't know Mitt, how about a law that states,     #1 Photo ID must be presented to make such purchases.     #2 Retailers must keep the personal information of the buyer and the purchases for two years.     #3 Limit the amount the buyer may purchase in a one month period.     That would be a good place to start. What's that? I've just been notified that there's already a law in place with those stipulations.      So I guess Mitt was right, those purchases must have been illegal. The only pr

Two adult women and a young boy are stabbed to death, dismembered and stuffed into a tree. The man responsible receives life in prison b/c he cooperated with authorities by giving up the location of the bodies and agreeing to plead guilty. A man kills his girlfriends daughter and then kills an elderly couple in his flight to leave the state, leaving them dumped in two different states. He receives life in prison by agreeing to plead guilty and drop his extradition from West Virginia. Meanwhile a man was executed this past week here in Ohio with very little fanfare. His crime, he killed another man in a jail house fight. Why him and not the others despite the heinous nature and the taking of extremely innocent lives? He made the ultimate mistake of pleading not guilty. You see, we don't execute people who plead guilty, we only execute people who claim innocence. In the past 18 years 17 death row inmates have had their convictions overturned and were set free. They served a combined