That's so sad. My experience with youth groups growing up was not any better than high school cliques. The bullies and self righteous "in" crowd existed there like anywhere else. Hated going to those activities.

I think it's a term that gets used by many people to mean many different things. Mostly, I encounter people who use that term to mean that they can't find a church, so they have a "personal" relationship with a deity. Now there are a group of animists who use the word "spirituality" to describe their relationship with nature. Again....it's a very broad term.

That's the thing. Definitions are wholly subjective. You wouldn't think they would be, but in our society's current state, that's what's happening. Everyone is going to define whatever state of being you can choose, as being a certain thing as it applies to them. I have never suffered from any kind of existential angst. I don't feel the need to define anything about myself for anyone. If I'm asked, I'll state my position(s) on whatever. Beyond that, I don't have any desire to make myself "more understood" to anyone. I guess in some ways, that makes me anti-social. LOL