Boot camp for the soul

This is from my journal:

"Church/religion is equal to boot camp for the soul. It takes the spiritual being that we are naturally, and kicks, stomps, berates, ridicules, and demeans it until it no longer is relevant. Then re-molds it to make it conform to their own standards and beliefs, and keeps it in a cage to be controlled.

Religion takes an inner-born, god-given gift of intuition and spirituality, and replaces it with a shallow, man-made, robotic nothingness. The end result is one who trusts and follows man's reasoning, and abandons the natural logic and intuition that god gave us to begin with."

Not sure what kind of mood I was in this day!!!!