Yesterday evening, two young men from the Church of Latter Day Saints rang my bell. "Why do you think there are so many different sects of Christianity?" they asked me. "Well," I said, "I think it's because a lot of people can't agree on the details." Yes, yes, that's exactly it! they agreed...and then proceeded to tell me why their details were the only right ones.
This is what irks me about most religions, the constant effort to convince everyone that there's one real God and one correct set of details, and that everybody else has it wrong. What a thought! I confess that to me it smacks of a hunger for power that contradicts spirituality. I prefer my God without a church and without a bevy of followers to tell me that my way is "right". When I'm lying on my back in the tall grass, with the earth beating under me and the wind kissing my cheeks, that's when God sings to me. That's enough.