Organized religion, with its systems, clerics, robes, rituals, and all such imposing outward outlay, has portrayed God as a distant, callous judge who,
having left humanity with a set of rules to follow, is waiting gleefully in the afterworld with a matchbox in one hand and a stick in the other, ready to scourge and then char those who stepped out of line. The God of religion is a God of endless demands. Those demands, however, are mostly made by the people who purport to represent Him.
~Prophet Elvis