Spirituality usually has a religious expression, but religious teachings and activities don't always have a strong spiritual element.
Spirituality doesn't war, since it naturally outshines any would-be opponent. It's characterized by peace and healing. Seeing man as purely spiritual—because he is the expression of Spirit, the only cause—can help bring peace to those with a solely religious commitment, and who may have strong, warlike human convictions. "By trusting matter to destroy its own discord, health and harmony have been sacrificed," Mary Baker Eddy explains in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. "Such systems are barren of the vitality of spiritual power, by which material sense is made the servant of Science and religion becomes Christlike Science and Health, p. 146;
To lessen and eliminate wars, spirituality is a prime demand. If there's a war to be waged, it is against materiality, against the multifaceted belief that the universe is physical and man mortal, discordant, and aggressive. This is a holy war in the truest sense of the word. It takes place in human consciousness and is a requisite until the last remnant of belief in a consciousness apart from the divine gives place to the reality of one infinite Mind, universal good.
