*grinning at the idea of organization*

Yep, Jerry, organization can be a very useful and important thing. It would be hard to use the library without a numbering and labeling system....but even there we have minor disputes about which shelf a book should sit on. At least we HAVE the books. A book does not get a place until it is in hand. Religious doctrines have, usually, one book with ambiguous credentials and thousands of interpretations. Do we organize the results, or the fundamentals?

Now, you take religion, which is VERY important as a human issue (no matter what the 'truth' is), and 'organization' becomes an issue as important as the basis of the religion, because whoever controls the details controls the way the religion functions in society. (Is it not Saudi Arabia which says that only Muslims can be citizens?) Of course religion, once it appears, is sought to be organized by its adherents!

The Bible speaks of "The Tower of Babel". I would submit the we have a parallel "Tower of Organizational Chaos" in religious matters. One of the reasons that I am not a religious person, is that I cannot comprehend 'God' seeing us with hundreds of different 'library systems', all claiming His organizational blessing, without popping in and ....ummmm....clarifying a few things.

I once took a course in comparitive religion where the varities of religion were organized for the sake of understanding how they have developed and affected society. Even there I heard complaints that the 'organization' favored (or slighted) this or that religion.

Sure...it WILL be organized...for as many reasons as there are opinions among the faithful as to what needs stressed.

You ARE correct, Jerry, that it is a natural thing to try...but organizing 'religion' is, by its nature, a different matter from organizing one's music collection.....one is a personal matter, the other affects the whole world, and is quite public.