[hosepipe]

[ I don't remember reading that in the Bible. Can you give me a citation? While you're doing that, maybe you could also explain why James 1:27 says, "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." ]

1) "I am the way , the truth, and the life, no man comes to the father but through me"- Jesus
Religion is obsolete, all religion. Your religion OR Jesus you can't have both.
Jesus eliminated the middle man. PURE Genius I would say. And the reason they HAD to martyr him, could'nt have that getting around..

2) That quote exposes and ravishes religion, in case you did'nt notice. Not a good start you seeing a dis on religion as being passage for it. One wonder what else you have missed.

Another question.. What would a real genuine God almighty even need with a religion, any religion, even yours ? If he needed a religion, he would'nt BE GOD..p> Clergy needs religions, God don't. Thats why theres so many..

[ahadams2]

please define your sources for your interpretation of John 14:6. Warning in advance: if your only source is yourself (i.e. that's what it means to you) that will not be considered sufficient, since it obviously does NOT mean the same to many of the rest of us.

[FBDinNJ]

Hosepipe, you're missing the point concerning the meaning of the Gospel of John. Even if you were to look at the Gospel of John from the historical-critical method (which is not something I particularly like to do, but nevertheless) you would realize that the main objective of the Gospel of John is to prop up the Johannine Church community. So rather than trying to destroy the Church, this book was written to bolster a specific Christian community, the Johannine Church, in the late 1st century.

[RobbyS]

Depends on what one means by religion. Religion,in the pejorative sense, we don't need. But you want a faith without cult, which is humanly impossible, and neither you nor I is an unembodied spirit.