Has the bureaucracy of religion reduced your spirituality?

Question

Has the bureaucracy of religion reduced your spirituality?

Answer 1

Nope. I avoid it at all cost. I have my bibles, my concordance, my favorite bible sites and most important, I have the Holy Spirit. I don't need religion.

Answer 2

It did in a big way for many years, until I finally saw through the mythical nature of the bible, and read tons of material about how the stories in the bible were mostly from old pagan religions.

Answer 3

Depends on which you hold in most esteem, God or your religious organization.  If your relationship with God is good, no organizaional religious bureaucracy can reduce your spirituality.

Answer 4

NOTHING can reduce my spirituality, nothing!  Haven't been in church in 30 years or the bureaucracy of nothing.  You just don't get it that NOTHING , 30 or 40 years of anything, can reduce Jesus.  You really just don't get it.

Answer 5

Actually, quite the opposite!  It has filled my life with joy to overflowing!

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Answer 6

No because I don't worship my religion.  I worship God.

Answer 7

No one can reduce my spirituality, however, the bureaucracy (among other things) of religion has caused me to enitrely give up on the idea of religion, just because I am not religious, doesnt mean I am not spiritual.

Answer 8

Religion doesn't mean much to me but my relationship with Jesus Christ means everything.  The "bureaucracy of religion" as you call it is mostly man made.