Ya, I wouldn't mind talking about broad things in PM if you feel like it. I find it near fruitless to talk about such things with people, as people must live out their own divine path. The "#1 reason for religion is to explain death" was something I learned in a class at UT. We were discussing the sociological reasons for people subscribing to religions and that is what the professor claimed through years of research. It made a lot of sense to me, since at the end of the day, no one who likes life will take kindly to the thought of non-existence.
Sorry if I came out too harsh against organized religion. It's just that I often find myself wondering if they've created more harm than good. In my view it just gives people access to many more theories which can polute the mind and further oneself from a spiritual path. Another thing about religions, specifically Christianity, that I find funny is how so many people can take a book so seriously written by some men who never knew Yoshua (Jesus to the Romans) themselves. Also, I get a kick out of reading about all the magick stuff in the Bible. I mean, damn, according to the Bible, only 2000 years ago people were flying, living 900 years old, separating oceans, etc. Where the hell has all this magick gone? Sounds like the Earth was a real life Dragon Ball Z or something. I know quite a few don't take those stories seriously, but I'm always amazed at how many people do. Whenever I read any book that has anything to do with spirituality I always let it resonate in through my Heart area to examine the type of energy that it gives off.
I have attended, seen, and read some works by various Catholic priests and bishops who did lightwork and it was amazing seeing them trying to explain it out of their Catholic mindset. You can always tell when someone is "in the Fire" (divine fire). I am a baptized Catholic, just fyi. I define myself as a spiritual human, not as a religion. It is like the Sun, it is not a Christian or a Hindu sun, it's just the sun. All these labels can further separate people from the divine.
When I started to stop accepting the dogma I was learning and Church at a young age was when I would go out of my body and have mystical experiences. I started regularly meditating and practicing also at astral projection at the age of fourteen. The experiences I had in what people call the "astral" realm (some people call Heaven, hell, etc, depending on where your soul body is vibrating) absolutely changed my life. I quickly started on my spiritual path and have since stopped doing astral projection to move onto more serious things.
Catholicism has been the only Christian religion in which I have found people to be acceptant of mysticism (direct Light work). However, where that stuff follows, many psychic tricksters do as well for their own ego gains, whatever that may be.
The part that frustrates me the most about religious people, when I talk with them, is that they'll spend so much time reading and researching, debating and theorizing. However, they miss the most important thing that they can do, to sit down and actually meditate. I don't blame them though, it's how we grow up that no one knows how to expand their spiritual body and how to find spirit, which can't ever be found in a book, unless one is already open to it. Hell, if people could have just 10 minutes to feel the expansion and integration that you do through spiritual meditation, they'd never want to stop. This stuff puts MDMA to shame, plus it's all natural and in 24/7 supply! With no side effects other than spreading more Joy! I have done some Christ Consciousness work that has made me feel like my whole consciousness, body, everything, is expanding outward into Creation, even when I'm walking around, doing work, etc.