I've been thinking about the differences between the two for a while now. This morning I was given a very clear example.
Faith is like a gift you are given. It's not wrapped up, it doesn't have requirements. It's simple and clean and pure.
Religion is a wrapper around faith that we as humans put on it. The image I was given was of a pure gift being wrapped in a gift box, then wrapped in wrapping paper, and then wrapped with an entire roll of duct tape.
Till it's all said and done, you need a chainsaw to get at your gift. What's sad is that all the layers are what we put on it.
