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I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

I grew up with a very religious background.

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

I just don't get on with institutions. I need simple relationships with people who believe in me.

Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.