^ To Gilbucci.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that any serious pursuit of developing that relationship USING religious channels can in fact be detrimental to it.
Religion, in spite of some of its benefits, is almost always exclusionary and limiting. How can anyone, let alone human beings, apply that kind of dogmatic thinking to something and someone as... transcendent as God?
It so often ends up being divisive and the root of all kinds of conflict.
