Anyone here ever read a booklet/tract called "My Heart Christ's Home"?

[Taverner]

6. Exactly! The Messianic Jews are about the only Christians that know it

Also - ask any Christian how the Bible was put together

95% chance they will have no idea. They might said God or Paul put it together. That would be wrong. The Roman Catholic church, working hand in hand with the government, decided which books went in, which didn't and even changed large parts. This was Constantine turning Rome into a kind of theocracy - one that ruled long past Rome and still exists today.

In Evangelical Junior High, as we learned it, they put all this emphasis on how they were copied letter by letter...etc

No mention that it was at least 300 years after most Jesuses (there were several Messianic claimants named Yeshua - it was a popular name) were dead. So I looked that up, and found out all about Constantine, who was sold as "allowing freedom of religion" and actually forcibly converted Rome to Christianity.

So when I posed all these questions to my teachers, I of course was swatted (corporal punishment vis a vis a bat that looks like a flat cricket bat) and told to have more faith.

At that moment, a light went off in my head that told me "What these people are telling you is bullshit. Go learn the truth."

And I did, and I'm here

Took me a while to step down from religion: several years before I kicked that monkey off my back. I tried the Methodist route, the Peace Church route, the Unitarian route and then I realized, through learning that it's ALL made up.

Knowledge IS power. It's not just a cliche.