To DownUnder, in a biblical sense yeah His church is based on a religion. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Of course, it's based on faith too, but then again faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. And also abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
The rest is to TheGrundgeDiva.
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.