“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
― John Lennon

Organizing a religion , or shared faith , helps us get the support of others of the same faith. But , creating inflexible dogma that you have to believe in doesn't help . The "either you're with us or against us "  attitude simply turns people off. People need the freedom to believe whatever they want and the use of "holy books" that purport to contain "the " truth simply don't work in our information society. Words are symbols and in many cases these "holy " books have gone through several translations.