It’s time for “spiritualists” to take over where the church has decided not to go- establishing the Kingdom of God! The world is essentially caught up in it’s own doings: shackled with fear and judgments. And both are at play at an increasing and alarming rate. Radical Islam is being stood up to by Christian fundamentalism and the results are not good for anyone! It’s time that we awaken and see that RELIGION (of whatever branding) is primarily the agent for social CONTROL and CONFORMITY. It’s time to break away from that which is not working!
We must move away from the lunacy of a wrathful and judgmental God!
Because the church has sold it’s “fear based wares” of an eternal hell and warned of dire consequences to those that don’t “toe the line” to church traditions (and there are many), too much of the world has ingrained in their human psyche the opposite of what God is really like.
We’ve swallowed the wrong pill Neo! Now what?
We have to begin by going within and discovering the real God of the universe and quit looking at the God out there that’s being sold every Sunday morning. Be nice and He (a male God?) will shower you with gifts. Attend every Sunday service, and follow church laws and She (equal time here) will heal your sickness. Believe in the creeds, dogmas, and doctrines that make little sense today, and It (the divine consciousness you know) will allow you to live a long and prosperous life.
But I prefer the intimacy of Thou (Father-Spirit). 
As Gill Edwards put it, “Too many have internalized a cold, critical, repressive inner voice- the judgmental god within- which tells us how to behave, constantly criticizes us, keeps our noses to the grindstone, and squashes or denies our true feelings.”
It’s time for a jail break (from our trapped disempowerment).
It’s do-able as well since the jail door locks from the inside!
I agree with you on the evils of “religious” hatefulness. I’d also point out that the major religions all have progressive elements who, imo, have much more in common with each other than with the fundamentalists of their own religions.
You are right on my friend!
From Walter Starcke’s book, “It’s All God”:
“If we only continue to repeat the way we have interpreted the message in the past, we get very little out of it that is new. If we have the courage to think for ourselves and draw out the meanings that are relevant for today, the traditions and Scriptures will become a treasure chest of self-discovery. Reinterpreting our Judeo-Christian myth is a way for us to talk to oursleves.”