Religion is very closely tied to social support structures: You can only "make one up" if the people who you are close with go along with you.

> Religion is very closely tied to power structures

Fixed it for you, Sir.

you have a point but it doesn't take many

I live in an area surrounded by cults

but also there are plenty of solitary practitioners of Wicca and Buddhism

and then you have the dozen of forms of christianity where every church just put their own spin on things

people are weird, religion just makes it even more so

I don't have a problem as long as they keep it to themselves but that rarely is the case