They are places where all men should show respect for each other and feel a commonality of purpose, a brotherhood of the soul. These are places where men should be able to focus their beliefs, teachings, history, traditions, and commitments into a single point of contemplation and acute awareness so intense it reaches into the depths of his very soul. These institutions are locations where men should be able to feel their connection to God within Himself. It is the most sacred place of all. It is outside the institutions of religion.
Religions are homes for the soul.
Society is home for the machine. It is in society itself where souls reconfirm, model their faith in each other, and strengthen their brotherhood to other souls. The soul meditates in the religious institutions. One's actions there are on an exemplary level since one is surrounded by one's personal convictions. In society, however, the soul no longer is surrounded with constant reminders.