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For those who have little time and less inclination for the work of study, reflection, meditation, and aesthetic appreciation--namely, for the toiling masses--an attempt is made to accommodate their needs and limitations by providing them with popular religion. But human nature being what it is, sooner or later the institutions and organizations associated with religion become either semi-commercialized or turned into instruments of power. A modern Japanese thinker even went so far as to criticize them by accusing them of "stealing Heaven's Way."

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 4 : Problems of Organized Religion > # 199