Antitheism

[Excited Penguin]

How exactly do you have god without religion, if theism is a form of religion, and theism means belief in God?

Like this:  I believe in a creator God.  My God is purple, he has horns, and he blew the universe out of his ass with a giant, cosmic fart.  I feel in my heart that he will keep me safe as long as I continue to believe in him.  There.  No organized religion necessary.  No other person in the world even needs to know about my personal theistic concept.  Why is that so hard?

But we weren't talking about organized religion. We were talking about mere religion. Which is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. So insofar as you believe in God, you are religious. You can't be non-religious and believe in God. You can certainly claim to pull something like that off, but that is a different thing altogether.