If you were to obtain work in a chocolate factory you would be invited to eat as much chocolate as you liked. After some time you would become so heartily sick of it that you would turn away from it.

Religious sects which offer a never-ending diet of sin and guilt have the same effect on the young today. To be told constantly that Jesus died for your sins and was required to suffer the death that YOUR sins deserved, is not only sickening, but blasphemous; and it is little wonder that the less gullible youth of today reject such idiocy.

No decent man would sacrifice the life of his fifth cousin, let alone his only son. It is blasphemy to believe that God is less loving than Man. Yet these unregenerates say "God is love" and teach the opposite.

The whole point of Jesus' very public death was to demonstrate by His resurrection, that the Son of God (Man) is immortal.

Do not confuse Biblical Christian truths with Spiritual Christian Truths. If you look for truth in a book instead of you own Mind, you will become and unthinking parrot squawking, "But the bible says, but the bible says, but the bible says." Is that where we find God? In a book? The early Christians found God within. Saint Peter, Paul and James never read the bible.

For the first three centuries Christianity found expression in Gnostic mysticism. Chief among Christian thinkers who strove to express Man's Spirituality were Clement of Alexandria and his great successor, Origen. After a the 4th century Spiritual awareness began to fade when Christianity became the official State religion, requiring uniformity of doctrine. Christian thought began to be expressed in set theological formulas.

In 543AD when the Emperor Justinian declared Origen a heretic and anathematised some of his teachings, some 300 years after Origen's death, the individual's private and personal striving for Spiritual knowledge was no longer tolerated. God was only accessible through official State Theology. God now had an official interpreter. And woe unto them who spoke another language.

Justinian also prohibited the teaching of Greek philosophy. He issued an edict forbidding "persons persisting in the madness of Helenism to teach ANY branch of knowledge."

Christians could love God with their hearts but no longer with their minds. Happily, within the Christian church, there are truly Spiritual men and women who speak of what they know for themselves and of their own insights into the Source of all in all.