Religion as an institution, or religion's effect on each person? Separate the culture from the spirituality. Most people never do, and suffer greatly for it. I

Religion as an institution, or religion's effect on each person? Separate the culture from the spirituality. Most people never do, and suffer greatly for it. I am almost certain you're arguing against the anti-intellectualism of American religious culture, and I find them to be a harmful, misguided force. But they do not constitute the whole of the religious experience; in fact, I believe they only partake in a truncated form of it because they exclude certain types of knowledge. I ask you to consider the fact that there are counter examples to your assertion, even if they are harder to see. I wouldn't think you'd be happy with half-truths (especially those that seek to demonize).