Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
That sort of thing might cause her some serious cognitive dissonance. "Religion" is apparently a bad thing for her. Though not necessarily so in Scripture.
Religion is not a relationship with Christ.
It’s simply works one does for whatever reason, usually to earn a place in heaven or appease a wrathful God.
Cynical Bear posted a good comment about the meaning of the Greek word for *religion* in James.
It’s this......
http://biblehub.com/greek/2356.htm
threskeia: religion
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: threskeia
Phonetic Spelling: (thrace-ki’-ah)
Short Definition: ritual worship, religion
Definition: (underlying sense: reverence or worship of the gods), worship as expressed in ritual acts, religion.