[OBW]

No matter how much of the mindset against the term "religion" was gained from the LRC and possibly still retained to this day, religion is not simply some evil that keeps man from God and from the Word of God. The only thing that will come from the extinction of religion will be the anarchy of every man with his own Bible doing what is right in his own eyes. We won't even be able to agree enough to have small groups in homes together.

All because each of us threw off the shackles of reason, logic, language, and truth in the name of "no religion" and became a seminary of one. Millions of them. Each with a slightly different set of "distinctives" that sets them apart from all others. Once we group back together under common thought, we will once again have religion.

And religion is not bad. Only one definition of several is in any way something to avoid. Yes. Avoid that. But not everything that has the label of religion.

And stop saying things like "I am all for the extinction of religion" because in that statement we declare to almost all listeners that we despise God, despise the community of believers, and don't think that anyone should engage in Christian thought. Instead, speak the language of the people you are talking to. They do not mean something evil when they say "religion." They mean the collections of actions, practices, thoughts, doctrines, teachings, etc., that comprise the truth and practice of obedience to Christ. When we say we want religion to be extinct, we are telling them that we want those things to be eliminated. In this case we are the ones using the term "religion" incorrectly. Not them.