He’s perfectly right of course. When people say junk like “I’m spiritual, not religious” or “I love Jesus, not religion” what they really mean is “I want Jesus, not his body the Church”. It’s the classic gnostic impulse to pit the spiritual and the physical against one another. It was definitively rejected by Jesus himself when he appeared to Saul of Tarsus (as he breathed out threats and murder against the first members of the Catholic religion) and said not,... Read more