I made the distinction of "organized religion" which supports exactly what you wrote, in that, it means the state organizing, which, in the case of Christianity, was an oral tradition with very little and scattered written gospel.
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First caveat- I do not call myself a Christian.
A religion really becomes a religion THROUGH organization, though, and that starts with very small groups, or even just one expanding group (in more modern times of effective communication over long distances)- I understand your aversion to the state's subversion of that, as I agree with you, but long before Constantine got involved with the early Christian church, there was a developing orthodoxy, nebulous and unwritten as it mostly was, the most important organizing principle of all for any religion- not much gets past your individual sphere of influence if you don't enunciate some base of philosophy that is communicable. To defuse any of the "by faith alone" rejoinders, I'm using the word philosophy in the most basic sense. In other words, ALL religions are organized. Somehow. The sticking points should be HOW they're organized, and to what end.