Religion can be a vector of spirituality
It is possible for the spiritual man to express the depths of his being.
Men without spirituality can also clump together within a religion.
These people raise their religion to the rank of ultimate end,
not capable, for the moment, of any spirituality.
They play the socio-psychological games that are played outside of religion.
The absence of spirituality causes this obsession, this tightening.
Notes & Silence 
I have a suspicion religion, in the end, always becomes a tangent into a mental and spiritual bondage.
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Religion may be as you said.
It may also be a framework opening onto liberation,
The box protecting teachings that would otherwise be perverted or diluted in the world.
It might…
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