Quotation by Siddhãrtha Gautama (Buddha)

Quotation by Siddhãrtha Gautama (Buddha):

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions simply because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

Buddhism practised as a way of life is fine but Buddhism practised as a religion is total nonsense. Once Buddhism becomes  a religion it acquires the trappings that go with it… greed, wealth,  rituals, divisions, factions, superstition, dogma,canons, creeds , veneration,myths and the final plea please help me Buddha