My 2 cents worth about organized religion & me...
I'm not a devout religious person, however, I go to/participate in church for my children. (2 daughters, 11 & 14).
1.) If We (wife & I) don't make the effort to provide them a church home, they will find their own or none @ all. (In central TX, some churches are very aggressive about sending kids out to recruit other kids to their church).
2.) Organized religion is certainly not the only way to worship, but it's the major way in our country/culture (I have my doubts that Jesus would approve of what some churches have become, he'd probably trash a lot of them physically as he did prior to his crucification). I strongly suspect, as do some biblical scholars that Jesus message was for people to move away form the organized church all-together, there's a huge chunk of his life missing from the bible, they suspect much of his life was removed to make the gospels more palatable to organized religion.
3.) Organized churches try to do good, they may not accomplish it 100% of the time but they try.
4.) We joined a church today, my 7th, Wife's 3rd, 14 y/o's 6th (She's been baptized 3 times now), and 11 y/o's 3rd (we've moved around a bit & checked out churches in each location, most were not a good fit for us.
Happy Easter;easter egg emoticon;