Religion – being good enough for God to accept us. Many do turn to religion … trying to always behave and say the perfect things. So that hopefully, their holy God will be obliged to help them handle the fears and horrible problems in life. But down deep, each of us know ourselves well enough to have to admit, “Being perfect all the time – that just ain’t possible!”

That’s true – and the very reason why religion simply does not work. For it to work would mean that we can do enough and say enough right things to get God Almighty to say, “Okay, excellent! You have managed to balance the bad thou...