Can We Please Get God Out of Religion?

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. "to believe in something greater and more powerful than themselves" - a country?

As always, we need the definition of 'spirituality' before discussing it; this article does provide its definition, so that's good:

"Miller proposes that spirituality—which she describes as religion minus the belief in dogma, the veneration of prophets and deities, and the fixation on the afterlife—is an innate human trait that needs to be encouraged and developed. Through extensive research, Miller asserts that spirituality encourages children to believe in something greater and more powerful than themselves, and as a result they develop more resilience and less anxiety throughout life."

So if they believe in a state in which people act together, achieving things they can't on their own, and which will remain even as individuals are born and die, we're there. You might call it 'anti-Objectivism'. It seems very like humanism.