[Carla19237]

‘Religion’ is not a force of nature, it is created by human beings. All of those beliefs and guidelines grew out of interpretations of the actual events of Christ’s life — by eyewitnesses, by those that heard eyewitness accounts, second-hand, third-hand, that read written accounts hundreds of years later, so on and so forth. Stories change over time and over large numbers of people. Have you ever played that game where one person whispers something to the next, and then the next, until the last person hears something quite different from how the message started? Same thing, multiplied by 2000 years and millions of people. People have an innate need to organize things and establish hierarchies. They do it to everything: their sock drawers, their email, their governments, their beliefs about God. People also seem to have an innate need to disagree with each other, whether over sock drawers, email, government or religion. So between the variable source material and the need to organize and disagree, you get umpteen number of groups calling themselves Christian. Even when the Catholic Church was the only Christian church around, it was full (and still is) of dozens of slightly different groups of beliefs. It happens to other religions too, just look at the different sects of Moslems and Jews. Christians are not unified because people in general are not unified, and I think that ties back into the free will that God himself gave us. It has its good points and its bad points, and it’s just the way things are.

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Name : Carla19237, Gender : F, Age : 33, City : College Park, State : MD, Country : United States, 

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