God/Religion. Why?

[RamesesII]

I want to quote something I heard today.

Spirituality seeks truth and understanding.

Religion seeks a reward in exchange for belief.

I believe the fundamentals of spirituality is the same as the bases of most organised religions, but true base spirituality seeks truth and understanding in ones inner self without the need to worship or to have faith or belief in a deity only to have faith in your self, for example most Asiatic religions dare I say for lack of a better word help you understand and find virtues, proper ethics and moral judgment.

Religion also has spirituality but at the mercy of a deity, it requires faith and belief in said deity to be able to find your spiritual path, it evokes control of the believer by way of rules and regulations and needs acceptance before one can find their path, if one is to busy following the path of these deities and seeking acceptance than what is overlooked is that we need to seek acceptance with ourselves first.

I don't mean that every religious person out there is this way so don't go berating me for assuming that the masses are parallel to this.

I also find it confusing to read that God has made us his children and yet he supposedly banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden and then he brought about 40 days and nights torrential rain to punish us for our mistakes and now he turns around and says that every person even the murderers and rapists deserve forgiveness for our sins. This astounds me was there a pivotal moment in history (bible) that changed Gods will towards man is this where Jesus comes into it, was it his will to die for us to show god that we can be forgiven no matter what.
I just find it hard that humans can put so much trust in someone so divine that makes mistakes and his mind can be changed at a whim.

Various pagan religions believed that the sun was a god. They had a great big ball of fire in the sky to prove that their god existed. I'm sure you've seen it before.

I sure hope your not making fun of mine and my peoples beliefs Mr Eastwood that would be a shame if Ra were to hear about this.