What is the Point of Believing in God Without Religion?

[ApeNotKillApe]

I think I just summed up the general idea pretty well, sport.

So.. in your monkey logic.

Ape logic.

Men in a consul can devise a creed, that people of a later generation do not agree with or will not pledge themselves to are still subject to the 'religion' those men help create?

People operate by their frame of reference, whatever that may be. Martin Luther had unconventional ideas for his time, but his frame of reference was that of the established ideologues, the Fall of Man, the Trinity, the Atonement, etc. Things Christians accept as a divinely authored or at least inspired, ideas that trace their memetic lineage to a roomful of men who long ago decided the canon, creed and concept of Christ as the carnal conception of the creator which contemporary Christians commonly cling to as a credible cosmic corroboration. 'Christianity' was not delivered fully formed by revelation, but cobbled together out of the wildly differing sects and mutually exclusive principles that lay scattered about the known world as the result of the schisms that warranted Constantine to organize the sodding council talks in the first place. Yes, people are subject to history.

Do you not understand the topic being discussed?

It is about this very thing. it is about casting off religion casting off creeds and other religious boundries and following God old sport.

You remove the stability of institution, rapid division follows, sects once whole fracture into new denominations, over time they drift apart both geographically and ideologically until eventually they become sufficiently distinct from each other that once they come into contact, they will be incompatible, perhaps unrecognizable as being related in the first place. Conflict follows. Whatever survives continues to fracture and spread. As it does now. As it always has.