What is Religion?

“Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?”

— EUGENE O’NEILL

The Native Americans were bewildered by the white man’s religion, which focused on worshiping one day a week. They viewed tithing to the church…