ORGANIZED RELIGION

I'm not much into organized religion. A lot of people seem to be helped by attending church. It helps organize their lives. Helps keep them on track.  But I see way too many professed Christians using religion to defend their own hatreds and fears and close-mindedness. I'm not interested in getting involved with it. I do my best mixing a number of different things, from Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Native American beliefs, including numerous things that I've read. Some days it seems pretty diluted, other days, just right. I would call myself spiritual, but not religious, not in the normal sense of the word. Sort of a mongrel. A Heinz 57.