Religions are fraught with concepts conceived to keep control
to maintain priestly authority and power and even wealth.
Yet, at the base of religions, there must lie truth;
spiritual truth.

Descriptions of divinity are surely mere clerical conceptions,
seeking converts to their particular persuasion,
for God is Spirit, indescribable, but real.

We visualise the ways of God through our religion's founders,
through their teaching, their example and their life.
So Christians look to Jesus as our guide.

There, maybe, we find how we should behave in the world around us.
However this leaves little scope for religious performance,
the role of priest can seem redundant without ceremony,
sacrament, obedience and a worshipful following.

Maybe the role of religion needs to be rethought.
Maybe churches should focus on what we do daily,
rather than on their dubious systems of control.
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