I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.