Religious man

             The word religion is extremely rare in the New Testament and the writings of mystics.  Those attitudes and practices to which we give the collective name of religion are not represented in our modern day vernacular.  To be religious is to have one’s attention fixed on God and one’s neighbor, in relation to God.  Therefore, almost by definition, a “religious” man is not thinking about religion; he hasn’t the time.  Religion is what we (or he himself at a later moment) call his activity from outside. ~~ C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), Lilies that Fester