PARTICULARLY BY THE TIME
it’s all morphed into dogmatized, formalized, INSTITUTION SUPPORTED, SERIOUSLLY PERFORMED RITUALS.
I couldn't agree with that statement any more than I do... And I aim that one at everyone.
The hardest thing to get folks to see is, in fact, the !!!TRADITIONS!!! they support without any reason at all, except for the claim that "our fathers did it before we did."
Jer 16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
(e-Sword: KJV)