Human beings are prone to making new religious communities, as they are to defining their own by contrast to other ones. You’re not doing it right is a powerful sentiment. There’s an old joke about a Jewish man shipwrecked on a desert island. Over the decades he builds three buildings. When he’s found, his rescuers ask him what they are. “This is my house. This is the synagogue I go to. And this,” he says finally, “this is the synagogue I don’t go to.”
