True Religion

Only when we fail to recognize the intelligence that created us do we feel unloved by the universe. If we think of our existence as the result of random events, then how can we feel loved at all? The love we seek from other people under such circumstances is empty and superficial because they too are only mortals whose love can and will be taken away someday.
So this failure to recognize the intelligence behind our creation is a critical failure. It keeps us trapped in a perpetual state of fear. And even worse is our attempts to substitute direct knowledge of that intelligence with the rationalized constructs of our own mind. We create false images of the intelligence that created us, and then invest tremendous amounts of time and energy into substantiating our false beliefs. This is the phenomena we call religion.
If there were a true religion, then it would not need to be promoted, defended, or even defined. It would exist regardless of human endeavors. I believe such a religion does exist, only I hesitate to apply the word “religion”, or even the term “true religion”, because then it would become too easily confused with all the other false religions that use the same term (all of them do, by implication at least).
If I could, I would define religion as the open acknowledgement of devine intelligence. By this definition then all religions are accommodated, both the one true religion (as yet undefined) and the many false ones. All religions openly acknowledge higher intelligence, though they typically go on to embellish their image of that intelligence with all sorts of human attributes and qualities. A true religion would, of course, not use such embellishments, either directly or by implication. So maybe we'd be better off to refer to it as “pure religion” rather than “true”. This at least would acknowledge the fact that all false religions have a true element at their heart. This also allows us to recognize the validity and value of false or “embellished” beliefs.
This concept is not very unlike the core principles of catholicism. They seem to believe (as I understand) that all the rituals and symbols that comprise the external church are really only humanized verisons of a much purer and truer inner church that is the charge of all Christians (Catholics) to cherish and to protect. But I believe even Catholicism fails in its mission to preserve the “true faith”, as evidenced by all the atrocities it has committed. No true religion would ever feel so compelled to establish itself in the world of men.
True religion is not only already established in our world, it is the very foundation of it! A worshipper of such a religion would know this and without fear wait patiently for his church to arise. Not only that, but he would know, by virtue of every breath he takes, that he is loved and cherished by the entire universe as well. Such a man would not seek out human love and companionship. He would not have to, for he would be loved by all seekers of the truth, who would see him in in its light. Yet, at the same time, he would be despised by those whose faces are yet turned away from the truth, for to them the truth is an ugly and sinister thing, and so anyone bathed in its light will appear ugly and sinister to them. Such was the fate of Jesus and it is why even he predicted a similar fate for all followers of the true religion.