JESUS ABOUT RELIGION

"You and your religion..." I often hear this and similar quotes from family members and other people who don't believe.  I usually reply that I'm not really religious at all, which leaves them confused.
Jesus is not just someone who started a religion.  He is the one who wants to reunite us with God in an understandable and very personal way.  And he wasn't shy about talking to the religious leaders of his day:

 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices, mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law, justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness."

- Matthew 23:23-28