I don't consider a relationship with someone to be a religion. I don't have a religion with my loved ones and friends. Religion, from my view, is something one practices in various ways to gain or attain some supposed spiritual benefit or growth. Relationship on the other hand, is relating to and interacting with a person in love or friendship. Maybe you find it pretentious or annoying when someone says something like, "I have a relationship with Jesus, not a religion", because you don't understand it.
But you still are religious because of the context of your belief system around Yeshua. You can't sit there and seriously tell me that you have a belief system based around your relatives or friends, like you do with Yeshua.
And what do we call a spiritual belief system? I'm pretty sure that's called religion. You are trying to make your religion somehow seem special by saying that others try to:
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gain or attain some supposed spiritual benefit or growth"
That there is your own projections. So to you, all
other religions are basically fake is what I'm hearing. How typically Christian (which is also a religion, btw). So you gotta make up a new phrase, to separate yourself from the stigma, but that doesn't change the underlying nature of what you believe and practice.
I also find it, as a last note, curious you would assume I "don't get it". I've talked with a lot of Christians extremely few have ever had a direct experience with Yeshua, angels or anything. Most only get some kind of internal sensation rarely is it where they literally hear Yeshua speak back.
Now daemons? Demons, deities and asuras? People have direct and very real experiences with them all the time. I can say that I have a relationship with a variety of entities but I can and will also admit that my religion puts into context the kind of relationships I have with spirits. This is just the same as your belief system will create a context that your relationship with Yeshua will be in.