Religious or Spiritual? Shall we not give it a thought??

A few days back my sis came to me and narrated me a conversation between a group of friends. During conversation somebody came up with a question after looking at a photograph. The question was "which sect/ religion do you believe in?" Everyone gave his/her preferred answer and some remained mum about it. But one answer that made this conversation memorable was an answer that actually was thought provoking. He said I believe in a particular sect but "I'm not religious but I'm spiritual".

This one line startled me. I'm a theist and a firm believer of karma etc.

What's the difference??

I do think being religious brings in some kind of rigidity with itself. People start getting possessive about it and with due course of time they become so possessive about it that they can't hear anything esp. negatives about it. What will we get spending so much on building all these religious buildings (saying this I don't want to offend anyone)? If God would have stayed at those places someone would have found him and saints would never have said "tera sai tujhmein hai, .............................". Well as per my opinion these places were made with a view that people can come to this place, sit and meditate, but we started worshiping these only. We started fighting for them and could even kill his creation (human beings) for the sake of saving (that's what we actually say whenever we do some brutal act/when we fight in name of God) our religion.

Spirituality: I'm nothing, I want nothing. When people start looking for their ownself they forget what's their religion. When they forget what religion they have, what will they fight for?? Spirituality brings oneness and feeling for others.

Well I think that a person should be spiritual rather than being religious. This will increase brotherhood and will help in making this earth (esp. India as there are so many religions) a beautiful place to live.