Section 12
God, but in Buddhism there is no God at all. The teachings of Confucius are nonreligious; they are altogether ethical teachings, having nothing to do with God. We should not consider Confucian ism as a religion.
Even with the two genuine religions there is still nothing but vanity. We do not need religion. We need a living Person. We do not need some thing related to God; we need God Himself. We do not need a way to worship God; we need the living Person of God to come into us. When God gave us the Bible, He had no intention of giving us a religion. God's intention was to reveal Him self into us through the Holy Word, not to have a religious form. However, the ancient Jews formed a religion out of the Old Testament, and Christi anity has formed an even stronger religion using the Old Testament and the New. The stronger a religion is, the more vanity it contains.
I do not say that Christ is vanity and I do not say that Christians are vanity, but I assert strongly that Christianity is vanity. The church is pre cious, but if you add "anity" to the church it be comes vanity. We want Christ, Christians, and the church, but we do not want any "anity." We must beware of religion; religion is vanity.