Why I Hate Religion

Wow. I found this amazing man who wrote a great poem; 
"Why I hate religion, but love Jesus"

In the poem Jefferson Bethke is trying to highlight the difference between Jesus and false religion. 

"Religion either ends in pride or despair. Pride because you make a list and can do it and act better than everyone, or despair because you can't do your own list of rules and feel "not good enough" for God. With Jesus though you have humble confident joy because He represents you, you don't represent yourself and His sacrifice is perfect putting us in perfect standing with God the Father." 

In the poem, Jeff is talking about religion as in traditions, where you just follow rules instead of the real meaning of it; you go to Church because it is Sunday and that's what we do; Christmas is about the tree, Santa and presents; Easter is about bunnies and finding eggs. But what about the real meaning of things? 

Churches teach something but practice something else and Religion wants rules and traditions. But Jesus loves us no matter what and definitely doesn't care about money. He welcomes everybody.

I think that's what Jeff is talking about by hating Religion and loving Jesus.
We follow traditions and religious people, but are we really Christians?

"If Jesus came to your Church, would they actually let Him in?"