If you were raised with Christianity as your religion, I can very easily see how it would continue to feel like home, despite you not embracing or believing much of it. And yet, why should you NOT receive inspiration from it, despite it not being a religion you claim as your own? I pull inspiration from wherever I can, and yes, frequently it is OTHER religions.
Personally, I believe there is a string of truth running through the basis of all religion... Heck, even The Force of the Star Wars mythology can be included. There is a truth to all of them, on some level. Whether we submit ourselves to all of the pomp and circumstance that humanity has built up around that essential truth is relatively unimportant, as long as we "get" that basic essence, that whatever-it-is that makes us live as better humans, more loving and "evolved" beings. The fact that you resonate with SOMETHING within Christianity is probably why you rebel SO HARD against that built up muck being used to inhibit/defame it, why it feels "stolen" from you.
Yes, much of our journey is still (as it was for Christ) to remind people that said essence, and not the laws and doctrine and dogma and built-up-muck, is what's important. Any Christian who feels they can just sit back and rest and relax and drift hasn't been paying attention, to the scriptures or the modern media...
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Personally, I believe there is a string of truth running through the basis of all religion... Heck, even The Force of the Star Wars mythology can be included. There is a truth to all of them, on some level. Whether we submit ourselves to all of the pomp and circumstance that humanity has built up around that essential truth is relatively unimportant, as long as we "get" that basic essence, that whatever-it-is that makes us live as better humans, more loving and "evolved" beings. The fact that you resonate with SOMETHING within Christianity is probably why you rebel SO HARD against that built up muck being used to inhibit/defame it, why it feels "stolen" from you.
Yes, much of our journey is still (as it was for Christ) to remind people that said essence, and not the laws and doctrine and dogma and built-up-muck, is what's important. Any Christian who feels they can just sit back and rest and relax and drift hasn't been paying attention, to the scriptures or the modern media...