In a sense, when UU speak of "spiritual", it has an assumption of dualism. Meanwhile, our neroscience has pointed a strong indication that we are monist. That there is not "spirit" operating behind the "body". Without a spirit, a person can't reallly grow spiritually.
A person can, however, be more mature, having more critical thinking skills, gather more information, cherish memories...etc
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Pick, for example <找尋人生意義, 為何而活> can be a philosophical problem. Many solution to the problem drew no reference to religion.
<人從何來> Is a SCIENTIFIC problem. We know evolution is the path (hence no defining line between human and other creatures, any 'scientific' religion will have to account for the human-ish ape and the ape-ish human.). We suspect about abiogensis. We can approximate the age of this universe. We postulated the BIg Bang. We are currently working on multiverse hypothesis...etc
<死後歸宿> assume a dualist position. If we are a monist, we vanish with our body, much like the software of a computer 'vanish' with the computer.
Rather, if you have your brain split in 2, and one side believe in one religion while the other believe in another, where will 'you' be going after death? (A neroscientist once joke about it from a real case in his expereiment)
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