Enlightenment, spirituality, faith — there’s nothing wrong with these things.
Organized Christianity is a social climbing scheme for people who desperately want to get away with never needing to truly outgrow their dysfunction. That’s why organized Christianity is popular with bigots, abusers, and people who hate the mirror.
I mostly agree with your points, I’m just trying to fully understand them. What do you mean by social climbing?
And how do you feel about people who don’t practice organized religion but still have enlightenment, spirituality, or faith?
It’s church people I tend to disagree with, and my experiences with them have mostly been as you described. That’s the main reason I don’t go to church, even though I still consider myself spiritual and have faith.
From what I understand, we’re already supposed to be forgiven and exempt from judgment. Hell doesn’t exist yet, and it was apparently created to punish an angel, so it wasn’t even made for humans in the first place.
I encourage you to sit with the phrase “sacrificial social pyramid”.