Quote Originally Posted by ghettopalmetto View Post
If you take the rites and ritual out of religion, you're left with an overglorified book club.
Depends on the religion. I am not a Quaker but have been to 'gathered' Friends meetings where I have been meditating about something when to my amazement someone gets up and says exactly what I was thinking without any cues or clues. How does that work? Believe me, Friends meetings are pretty devoid of rites and rituals and even their theology is vague to non-existent; no candles, catechisms, robes, organs, etc..