Words and their meaning change over centuries. Translations and the telephone game distort. Things are added and removed. Allegories are stupidly taken literally... But what if you took the time and effort your self to know? It may take years of research and contemplation but would that not be more righteous than just blindly believing some texts you were handed must be the true words and will of God?

I really doubt Jesus was hanging there on the cross thinking "these Roman military occupiers and the guy that stabbed me aren't that bad compared to the people here and of my home land. I think I will erect my church in Rome 1600 miles away by boat, and then turn it into an empire to militarily try to conquer the world."

Would the devil not try to deceive the whole world by putting on a triple crown and declaring himself the voice of Jesus and the king of the temporal world? Would he not then take the scripture and put together a group of bureaucrats to finess them into the doctrines of his empirical cult?

Our eyes see the frequency of light that is reflected by the object it hits, therefore we truly see only the shadow or reflection of all things. The true light takes effort to see.