I'm not a Christian because I don't like churches, and believe that while the original revelations people in the Bible were given, as well as what Jesus preached, are probably true, because humans have free will the actual truth has probably been hidden under layers of misunderstandings and misinterpretations. It was, after all, humans who compiled the Bible and decided what was accepted into it and what was not, and churches who have been telling us for a centuries what it all really means - in their interpretations. Except most of those priests and other notables, especially on the upper levels, may have been more interested in politics. They, after all, had to make sure that the Church, especially in the beginning when it was mostly what now is the Catholic church, was trying to just survive, and later, spread and get as many people under it as possible.

They did use forced conversions back then too. Accept Christianity or die... and everybody who dared to doubt The Church risked dying as a heretic so it was "accept what WE say is Christianity" too.

And those old revelations were also given to people who lived in very different societies with very different worldviews, and different languages, and the people who tried to explain what they had gotten used metaphors and words which may have been what people then could understand, but which we, not truly knowing how people back then really thought, may now easily misinterpret. So for most of my life I have thought that taking something like the Bible literally is probably understanding what is in it often more or less wrong.

I think there is a core that is true there, and that Christianity may be one of the better interpretations at least as far as its cultural impact is considered, as Western cultures have been quite successful compared to several others (not because God favors us, but because at least parts of what Christianity teaches can create well working human societies... so it might be closer to the actual truth).

But since I also think that a just God would not give the truth to just one group of people and abandon everybody who is outside that group - Christians, when the majority of people who have lived after Christ truly have never had much of a chance to maybe ever even hear such a religion exists. That just doesn't sound at all just, and, well, I refuse to believe in an unjust God. And even when they have known about Christianity, maybe even had a chance to study it, they often, or maybe most times, haven't had a realistic chance to convert to it as most people stay with whatever their surrounding culture has - I just believe that all major religions have probably had similar true revelations, or have started with them (or most anyway). So the best way to go with all that may be comparing everything and seeing what they may have in common. Or maybe also read about what NDEs, and other people who now seem to be having some sort of revelations, are saying, by taking as many as you can and again comparing them and seeing if there are similarities, and how much, and how they compare to what existing religions say.

Well, who knows whether I am wrong or right. But that is what I think.