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I would guess that's probably a part of it. Growing up in a conservative Evangelical background, the popular saying at the time was : "Christianity is a relationship, not a religion." But it didn't take me very long to learn what that really meant was "Only this specific group of people have that relationship" and, shock of all shocks, it just so happened to be the group I was in. Everything else was just religion, and they were all missing out on the relationship- and most often, because they didn't sign on to some doctrines (inerrant Bible, etc.). My experience has been that the people who say this stuff the most have some of the strongest boundaries for who actually has that relationship with Jesus.