  There are more reasons why I don't embrace mainstream Christianity...many of them issues I have with the theology behind it all, let alone the sometimes poor social justice record. Given what I have learned about it, it seems to me that Christianity is NOT so much an organic religion born of the experiences of the Jewish people, but a mishmash, a mutt, a combination of Jewish lore, Greek mysticism, and Mithraic/Zoroastrian tradition. And that to me strongly suggests that this whole business about the Virgin Birth and a Savior and the very existence of Jesus and all that, are forfeit. In other words, it's NOT eternal truth. It's all man-made. Every bit of it.
It's not a product of subjective experience at all, it's not "real" in the way a tree is real in that it was born of the very Earth, its Mother. It's not real in the way that a robot isn't real like a human being is. Make sense? And quite often I do wonder if it's possible to "reclaim" it at all, given that there was nothing there to claim to begin with. Yes, to me its very existence is questionable. And the human mind is perfectly capable of devising a "sacred text" such as the Bible, to answer any questions about its veracity.
Circular reasoning, yes. But people accept that from it! And I can't see why. I always come back to the "consider your source" argument. OF COURSE the Christian church wants to maintain its status as the world's most powerful religion. OF COURSE they're going to manipulate every inch of information to maintain that position!
It's like my ex. OF COURSE he wouldn't own up to whether or not he was having cyber affairs or seeking new partners online. He didn't want to lose me, until he had something else lined up. See how that works???? It's all suspect to me. That's why over the last several years, I've come to think that the Heathen religions were more sincere.
They don't have a position of power to defend. They're not out to win votes, as it were. And this is what makes it so very, very hard for me to believe that there's any truth at all to Christianity. One can find the same spiritual values it advocates in other paths that don't have an agenda, that aren't defending its position in the world. 
