All the rituals and messages of scriptures and paths of religions will provide immense value, only if the true original basis, on which they have been discovered/designed/evolved is enlivened in the followers

it acts like the light switched on, revealing all clearly and fully.

and that basis is the experience of the absolute , unmanifest, pure awareness.

if seen applying this criteria, it concludes that the practice of religion is only superficial , miserably, 

a blind/dream walk, even some masters trying to teach things on which they themselves have no right grasp , and followers assuming that the glow worm is the real spark 

the emphasis is on the authentic experience, not on surmises and interpretations