{"id":17475,"date":"2021-07-29T02:42:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T02:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=17475"},"modified":"2021-07-29T02:42:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T02:42:28","slug":"a-step-beyond-sbnr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2021\/07\/29\/a-step-beyond-sbnr\/","title":{"rendered":"A Step Beyond SBNR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KAUAI, HAWAII, July 24, 2021 (Hinduism Today by Reiley Wilson): I had always thought of myself as spiritual but not religious (SBNR). Growing up, I attended a Lutheran church and I was taught gnostic teachings at home by my mother. I did not believe in what the church was preaching, yet I continued to attend with my parents as I was merely a child.<br><br>I first heard the term Hindu at age 16. In my light, preliminary research, I found and absorbed many of the aesthetic aspects. For example, seeing Ganesha\u2019s image made me feel good, so I kept photos of Him in my school locker and on the home screen of my cell phone.<br><br>When I considered myself SBNR, I felt I was free from what I considered the constraints of religion. But I have learned that HInduism has none of those limits. I am convinced that today&#8217;s push towards spirituality without religion, and even towards atheism comes from a rejection of Abrahamic faiths, since those do not offer the countless options of worship and introspection as found in Hinduism.<br><br>More of this insightful opinion at \u201csource\u201d here:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/magazine\/jul-aug-sept-2021\/a-step-beyond-sbnr\/\n\">https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/magazine\/jul-aug-sept-2021\/a-step-beyond-sbnr\/<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAUAI, HAWAII, July 24, 2021 (Hinduism Today by Reiley Wilson): I had always thought of myself as spiritual but not,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17492,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17475\/revisions\/17492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}