The term religion is quite inadequate to describe the reciprocal bond and accessible intimacy between mankind and the Creator.
The term religion is a term of falsehood and exile produced by our disconnect, and the expelling of the Divine feminine (/ Shechina) as a byproduct of our building collective and individualistic egos.
In place of this bond we build "foreign God" paradigms that serve our cultural collective and individual egos, fetishes of control and power. These virtual/ synthetic gods are projections of mankinds deficiencies and serve the ego's dysfunction. Instead humanity should focus on the fact that they are gifted with the spiritual technology for correcting themselves to draw intimately closer to all.