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If I choose to follow Christianity, I am compelled to follow only the books of Christ in the New Testament.
Paul is clearly wrong and had done more detriment to the faith of Christianity than anyone - that is my belief. Let me back this up, before I get sent into the posting hell.
Paul is divisive. He despises women speaking in church, despises homosexuals, he despises marriage unless it is by the church. You have to understand that people couldn't get married easily except by common churches.
I could follow Christ. But I can't follow anything Paul wrote. Now which religion is this so I can be a Christian again. They don't hate women, homosexuals, or people of different racial or theological ideals. I want to follow Christianity that has nothing to do with Paul's misogyny and Paul, whom was not a follower of Christ, but a follower of his own ego, minimized.
Is there a religion that follows the four books of Christ, and not the rest of them? Paul destroyed Christianity in my opinion - note - it's my opinion, and I'm not inviting the desecration of them, just true discussion.