text: what's the difference between being 'spiritual" and being 'religious"?? your opinion, please you can be spiritual without being religious, and you can be religious without being spiritual.  in any opinion, the need to belong to a religion stems from the inherent need of people to experience wholeness.  religion may or may not give that to you.  spirituality, in my mind, is the personal expression of that need, that cannot be shared, only experienced.