Quote Originally Posted by Evans View Post
If you want to believe in God, do it. No one should need a group of people telling them HOW to live their faith and whatnot. It's bullshit.
What you've missed is that many of these people don't have any faith in the religion to begin with. They have faith in tradition, they have faith in what their parents taught them, they have faith in what they've always believed.

They don't know enough about their own religion to really have faith in it. Take away the organisation and all that's left is a bundle of half-defined wishes, not a coherent religious position.