Takahmamash, she seems to be saying that being chareidi, as opposed to other forms of frumkeit (sorry, gavra, but I will continue to use the term which 99% of us use) is merely external, which shows an unfair bias.
Of course, I don’t know the person or context in which it was said, so I’m open to explanation that that is not what was meant.
Barry, no problem.
Squeak, we can be considered not only as creation to Creator, but also as children to Father, subjects/servants to King, and even ???? ??? ?????, whatever that means. We also find the ???? of ??? ???? as a description of the relationship between HKB”H and klal Yisroel.
I don’t know why you dismiss the notion of relationship. Of course it’s very different than human to human relationships, but Chazal did use human relationships as a moshol.