Spiritual agnosticism

A spiritual agnostic is a subset of traditional agnosticism that is distinguished by the acceptance of the value of universal ethics yet rejection of any aspects of religions that seem divisive. For example, love is the ideal source of motivation, and since many (if not all) religions emphasize love, a spiritual agnostic might participate in the practices of one particular religion while simultaneously rejecting some of the mainstream principles of that religion.
Regardless of this possibility, spiritual agnosticism claims that innate morality and common ethics are far more important than differences in beliefs. A spiritual agnostic would say "It doesn't matter what religion you call yourself a follower of, nor does it matter whether or not you believe in God. What matters is what you do, not what you believe."
A spiritual agnostic might pursue traditionally religious spiritual practices. Such practices may include but not be limited to:
* Meditation
* Introspection
* Contemplation
Spiritual agnostics are different than theist agnostics in that they do not necessarily lean towards a belief in God, but may or may not have faith, or hope that God exists. In either case, the spiritual agnostic sees the question as largely academic. The spiritual agnostic is unconcerned with the question of whether when they pray they are communicating with God or accessing a Jungian archetype.
A spiritual agnostic can also be defined by being specifically irreligious, though not necessarily with hostility towards religion. The spiritual agnostic may also be compared to someone who identifies as Spiritual but not religious, but is more specific about their position on the existence or non-existence of God (or some deity).
As any other secular believe, most spiritual agnostics are more inclined to support scientific principles such as evolution rather than creationism and the acceptance of fundamental laws of nature and physics that explains the creation of the universe and the gradual evolution of life on earth.
While creationism plays an important role for many religions, spiritual agnostics believe that creationism lacks the solid grounds based on observation of scientific and empirical methods that the universe and the world was planned, designed and its basically the product of a omniscient and omnipotent creator or "intelligent design" that rules and controls the universe and the world in which we live in. As well as the rejection of the idea that there is a fixed plan for the universe, the world and for each human being on earth, based on principles such as destiny.
Lacking the logical, factual and empirical evidences to support the foundations behind creationism, many spiritual agnostics don't feel the need to associate themselves with a particular religion. However many advocate the acceptance and respect of other believe systems. Largely they accept moral values, humanitarianism and universal ethics and principles that unifies people rather than separate them from their different religious points of views, whether they believe or not in a creator.
Spiritual agnostics are more inclined to associate themselves with secular forms of believes such as Buddhism and Secular Buddhism, since it doesn't advocate religious conversion or to accept the existence of a creator to practice it.
Spiritual agnosticism should never be confused with forms of spiritism such as christian spiritism, mediumship (psychics), wiccans and hinduism which advocates the believe of immaterial beings or incorporeal entities such as gods, demons, angels, deities, "imaginary friends" (pass the childhood stage), the supernatural, paranormal activity and spirits.

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