my parents are kinda fully on that train. idk if ive heard them distance themselves from the word “religion”, but they are keen to distance themselves from The Church as like institutionalized religion*. theologically they’re like completely committed to a very individualized relationship view.

*and they take an extremely wide view of what this entails. as in basically anything formalized or non-dyadic is essentially superfluous at the end of the day. they don’t really have a model for community besides being an amplifier for personal faith.