I find myself agreeing with a lot of the Christian traditionalist views I read here but I have to make sure I don’t get caught up in it too much. ANY belief system is a crutch. Devotion to God is the absence of beliefs, IMO, it’s getting in tune with the experience of life which is God. Beliefs are Satan’s work, the tree of knowledge, so to speak. You form a belief to comfort yourself from the terrifying prospect of total doubt which is God. You cower before the might of the raw experience and run to the safety of a mantra, a book or a set of mental propositions and images that makes you feel better. But as Robert Frost said, “The only way out is through.”