Trouble in Paradise: "Spring Cleaning"...

I wish Pope Francis every success, because there's obviously centuries worth of dust and calcification and skullduggery to be re-examined and swept aside. But I have to wonder who will win... His Holiness, or those hordes of self-interested and self-serving minions who pay lip service to beliefs they make a mockery of every day, while the rich get richer, and the poor go forth to multiply us right off the home planet?

Today's Question Everything should be: "What is the real purpose of religion, and how much of it do we need in order to properly connect us with our God?" Does it take a vast hierarchy of pretentiously pious priests and prelacy? Or only the fervent and sincere hope and prayer that we may somehow be one with our Creator, and forgiven for our transgressions? Beyond the obvious "Show and Tell" there is a whole other thing going on, if we're in the right frame of mind to connect with it, and if we are, then we don't need that "Show and Tell". 

Ever since the days of ancient Egypt, we have been told to go into our room, and lock the door, and say our prayers in secret, that we may be rewarded openly. We have never been told to make a pompous public display of our devotion, because those who do have already received their rewards.