Religion is either a bridge, or it is a prison. Religion either opens us to the larger life we hold in common with all, or it imprisions us within itself. Religion is either the pursuit of the original song of our hearts or it is a parrot song for us to whimper within our gilded cages. If religion does not free us from its own dogma, it fills our minds with words of the dead. Such faith permits us to believe but not to think.If religion does not free us from its own moralisms we become mimes living in formulaic gestures instead of ethical relationships. Religion either calls us beyond its own walls into life and nature or it shrink wraps our horizons down to those of its own sect and culture. Such religion praises the seed but forbids the blossom.