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My great great grandfather was one of those charlatan preachers, and the damage he did to our family is still resonating.  He was so mean that no local church wanted him as their pastor.  The single photograph I have of him, a very primitive photograph from the early 20th century, depicts an old man glaring at the camera as if to call a curse down on the viewer.

   I became so tired of the spoonfeeding of religion by charlatan preachers, that I abandoned the religious practices of my spouse and her family to become a convert to the Orthodox Church.  No one there asks me, "Have you found Jay-zus," and, "How much d'you bawl?"  And I do not mention this to evangelize; only to say what my experience has been.

   The poem conveys a lot of profound wisdom and experience, and I applaud the verse form by which you present it.

Well there is religious and then there is spiritual 

They dont often go together in an organised fashion 

But the climate faith and the identity faith and the religion of science and its spin off pseudo science all have the one thing in common -indoctrination and it uses its lackies to enforce it through manipulative tactics. Be free but don't be free of everything you are entitled to it all without the others interpretation. We must all find our own way through the quagmire of life and and after and then some.  At least she cared enough to try. Love is complicated like that.

Good for you! A well-written declaration of independence from mainstream "spoonfeeding". You gracefully expressed that spirituality is not a one-size-fits-all journey, and that it's difficult to transcend when weighed down by the fear-based religion of a "self-righteous charlatan preacher". Keep thinking for yourself.