Religion, as a word, is often used as a synonym for belief. That is a modern habit, and it hides the older fact.
Before a creed is a set of propositions, it is a form: a calendar, a posture, a table, a text read aloud in a room of other people. The form does not wait for the participant to feel authentic. It asks the body to arrive first.
Spirituality, in the contemporary sense, tends to reverse the order. First the inner weather. Then, maybe, a practice if it still fits. The risk is obvious and human. Feeling is weather. Weather changes. A life built only on weather has nothing to keep it when the mood moves.
This is not an argument that form is truer than insight, or that inherited ritual is above criticism. Plenty of forms have been used to coerce. The point is narrower. A tradition is a technology for keeping a question alive across people who will not all be inspired on the same morning.
Scripture works this way. It is not only a library of claims. It is a paced encounter — yearly cycles, weekly portions, sentences meant to be heard with other ears in the room. The text is doing something to attention that a private highlight reel does not.
Quoted For Truth keeps Religion distinct from Spirituality for that reason. One thread is the inherited form. The other is the lived quiet. They speak to each other. They are not the same door.
If you only trust what you currently feel, you will call that honesty. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it is just the smallest available time-horizon. Form is one way a people stretch that horizon past a single mood.