If you want to have picnics and share experiences with like-minded people - why not join the Mafia, or the KKK?

Joining these organisations are just as likely to enable a relationship with God, to seek what is beyond us and have faith.

In other words - all human constructed organisations are irrelevant to such spiritual matters but many bad things continue to be done because of these organisations and in their name. Would you accept this?

Those undertaken by The Mafia or KKK would be judged by many posters here without much question and the blame squarely placed by them on these organisations - no matter how good their picnics were.

The same cannot be said for organised religions.

Joe if you left your organised religion - you would be free to teach whatever you wished about the Inqusistion or anything else - without needing to argue, justify or defend this with anyone or any grouping in your organised religion.

However, you may have to give-up wearing the habit and oggling the nuns...............