Religion is not a bad word it is just that people who have bad beliefs say they are a religion and there are so many of them that a lot of people view religion as bad.
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(James 1:27).
God said that pure religion which would be true religion is to care about people in the sufferings and helping people with their needs and allowing the Spirit to lead you so you can be sinless acting like Christ.
Religion is not a bad word if it is God's interpretation of religion and not man's interpretation of religion which will fall short of love for people.All religions fall short of God's religion of love for people and hypocrites are not part of the Christian religion so their misconduct cannot reflect badly on Christianity because they are not a Christian.
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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(James 1:27).
God said that pure religion which would be true religion is to care about people in the sufferings and helping people with their needs and allowing the Spirit to lead you so you can be sinless acting like Christ.
Religion is not a bad word if it is God's interpretation of religion and not man's interpretation of religion which will fall short of love for people.All religions fall short of God's religion of love for people and hypocrites are not part of the Christian religion so their misconduct cannot reflect badly on Christianity because they are not a Christian.
Matt