I can certainly echo those sentiments as they relate to confusion in religion.
I believe that like every other religion on Earth, Christianity is flavored and influenced by a multitude of factors:
Region, Culture, Tradition, social standards, interpretation of religious scripture, and individual spiritual focus.
"A pound is a pound the world around", does not necessarily apply to religious consistency. Much like the different types of Buddhism that have been influenced by important people or cultures through the years, so has Christianity. And Christianity also has an amazing range of beliefs for being based on similar scriptures and literature. The beliefs range from peaceful and accepting, to hateful and bigoted. Much like everything else in the world, our success depends upon our own best interpretation of what is right...not what is right in Reality.
Imagine Truth to be a candle in the middle of a room...It is solitary, independent, needing nothing. It stands under it's own weight and on it's own merits. Now, imagine that our interpretation is the precise distance and angle that we see the candle from. How bright or dim, how real or imagined it is will be based on your own cognizance of it. The candle does not change, it is up to us to move around the candle and examine it from all sides, from near and far, to have not a vision of truth...but a scope of it.
Now blow the candle out, and flip on a light switch, you're scaring me.
Good discussion.
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