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Unfortunately prayer, and the religious institutions that support it, have plagued humanity after their usefulness have ended.
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Religious institutions are just that - institutions - and as such, they are subject to the politics of any organized institution as well as the neccesity to be inclusive and to adapt. What the minister of your church preaches today is far different from what they were preaching two-hundred years ago, and even further from what was taught two-thousand years ago.
True Faith is a pact between one man and God. It is not dependant on what anyone tells you, it is dependant on what you know, on the definition you settle on, on your own pact between God and yourself. In many ways to have faith in God is to have faith in yourself. We can know God in our heart without the bible, the Koran, or even Jesus. And we can certainly know Him without organized religious institutions.
The usefullness of Faith and God will never end. The need for religious institutions may.