Beware the religious

Well do I remember an alcoholic friend. He was a member of same church as I after his wonderful conversion.
If pressed he would tell of those days when his wife would come to haul him home from the gutter after a drinking spree.
He finally found the power to say No to booze and the joined the church where he found that power.
However his wife left him. I have always thought that she was too blame. He was my friend after all, but this morning as I thought again of this friend of long ago perhaps it was she who found that it was impossible to live with a religious person. Living with an alcoholic may have been easy in comparison.
Religion has after all been too blame for war, strife and almost any of humanities woes.
Is this not the reason I wrote Adam's Clay, if not to show that true Christian faith is against religion?
Jesus seemed to go out of his way to show up the religious leaders of His day as frauds and liars, but are not faith and religion the same thing?
Never! Faith is in what God does and religion is what I have done. The two cannot be further apart and explains the problem with religion and why it has caused so much trouble.