What does religion do to people according to Les?

Les teaches that religion is the most awful term in the human language. He says religion prompts hatred, precipitates war, and takes people down the dark path of legalism. Religion is always man's attempt to somehow please God, whereas Christianity is never a religion. Christianity is God reaching down in mercy and grace to a lost human race, and religion never does that. Paul uses the word in a bad light when he says he was saved out of the Jews' religion, because he was religious. As a religious person, he hated the very name of Jesus of Nazareth. Les explains that this is the third segment of humanity Paul now addresses: the religious person.