Isn't religion ultimately man's attempt to be God? Our age old sin. We seek to set our own parameters, feel like we have some sort of control in the matter. As a result, God was systemized - or attempted to be. When in reality, are those rules and distinctions and neat, man-made organizations really necessary?
"Relationship, not religion" - a cliche that those who are actually quite religious use, not realizing what that statement actually should look like - but it's true in its right realization. If it's truly about being close to God, communing with Him constantly and truly yielding to Him - why do we have to form such strict and certain parameters around that? As if God Himself is not enough for our salvation and holiness, but we feel like we can do Him one better by institutionalizing our union with Him, adding rules and measures - implicitly required to be evaluated as being at a certain level with Him as some sort of validation, neglecting the knowledge that it was all taken care of on the Cross.
Man's effort to be approved by God is an outdated system, necessary before Christ but obsolete now. Just be with God. Really be with God. That's enough. Religion - man's attempt to put his own holiness around the matters of God - has no place here.
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