Normally Shane is a really thought-provoking speaker and has a real ability to express some deep truths about faith and life in a really straightforward way... But I think here he has jumped on the bandwagon of slagging off formal religion.
Of course, organised religion has done a lot of harm (take the horrific case of the Roman Catholic Church covering up abuse) and can be a barrier to people finding God in their lives... But this has to be balanced with some of the good things that 'organised' religion HAS achieved that couldn't have been achieved otherwise... Take examples of the abolishment of slavery in this country, the founding of hospitals and schools to start with
And religion comes from the word 're-ligio' which literally means to re-connect (with God)... So while he argues that Jesus doesn't need religion, he argues against the very thing Jesus came to do - to re-connect us with God...
It's just plain lazy when people say religion is bad...
