nibbling at the difference between true and false religion...

False religion is to love God as ideal more than God as God reveals himself in the world:

• in the story of his relationship to Israel, his life in Christ and in the Church;
• in the sacraments;
• in creation in general;
• and especially in other human beings.

It is religion that forgets the last especially that makes possible things like terrorism, genocide, war and cruelty of all kinds(and I'm not just talking about Islam--we Christians are experts at this).

True religion sees the divine image already present, however hidden, in the imperfect human being and also recognizes that love cannot wait for or even seek to create perfection--the perfect object for our love--but must begin already in our imperfections (like God did with us sinners) and must be willing to risk loving the subject (which, this side of the Kingdom, is alwasy a risk precisely in his/her impredictability, fallen humanity, etc.)