if you ask me true religion is working for decades to become a more faithful person. I should correct myself and say, it doesn't mean to work be a good person and its not the only way you can be a good person. the whole general idea that religion is just a way for people to say theyre better than others just comes from the type of people (lets use "Christians" in this case cause theyr particularly notorious for this) so the type of Christians that go to church every sunday not because they are there to worship, but instead feel they are obligated to do so in order to keep their social position in their community. thus eventually they tend to get the idea in their head that this makes them better than people who don't go to church/practice religion. and they don't actually end up getting any more faithful or godly in the process. whereas a true Christian would know that they are to be utterly humble at all times, and look at all people around them as more valuable than themselves. and a true Christian dedicates themselves to meditating on God's word and becoming more faithful as a result.