The problem with organized religion is not that it is organized. The problem with organized religion is that it is religious - believing that its own set of rules, regulations, rituals and routines are the exclusive way to God...The antidote to organized religion is not disorganized religion, but organized irreligion.

The Christian faith is the phenomenon of people following Jesus. The Christian religion is the phenomenon of people following the phenomenon of people following Jesus.

Jesus was a one-man, walking, talking, counter-temple movement.

Let's pretend God clearly communicated through Scripture that, for reasons known only to him, it is wrong for his people to sit in the red chairs. So God's Torah says, "Thou shalt not sit in red chairs." The role of spiritual leaders would be to communicate this teaching to each generation, and perhaps to suggest ways that this rule could best be maintained in their particular day and age. So the next generation of religious leaders makes a suggestion: "God's people should never be within ten feet of a red chair." This "fence" is designed as a helpful tool to aid people in their desire to obey God's law, but now an insidious process begun.
The next generation inherits that new suggestion as a rule and tacks on their own "helpful" addition: "It is wrong for God's people to even look at red chairs." There, that should help people deal with the problem of temptation. Further generations add: "God's people must never be in the same room as a red chair" then "in the same house as a red chair" and so on. Eventually, most of the religious leaders' time is taken up debating whether or not it is spiritually lawful to shop at IKEA! A whole lineage of rules and regulations that God never intended thus evolves around this one topic. Sin-avoidance has been systematized, righteousness has been mechanized, and little room is left for deviation and diversity.

Yeryuzunde evrenin seyredilebilecegi noktayi bilseydim, oraya kosar, topraga bir kazik sokar, ona asilir ve duserken dunyayi da pesime katarak kendimi bosluga atardim.

Ama nasil dovusmeli? Kime karsi? Neye karsi? - Garip ve piriltili bir alemde, ticari uygarligin cafcafli evreninde, bolluk hapisanelerinde, buyuleyici mutluluk tuzaklarinda yasarken.

Her bireyin kendini dunyanin merkezi, tek ve en yuce varlik, her seyin basi ve sonu sandigi bir ulke nasil bir ulkedir?

Maymunu ormandan cikarabilirsiniz, ama ormani maymunun icinden cikaramazsiniz. Bu bizim gibi iki ayakli maymunlar icinde gecerlidir.