Have you obtained access to these documents also? If not you will be unable to make any informed judgments. In past posts I related about the F 990 and attendant documents which performed analysis of same.. Perhaps these salient facts were ignored for a reason?. Is there some sinister agenda breeding here.
Sorry, no self serving testimony allowed. You need to accept evidence which does not comport to your sense of objective reality. You can play fast and loose with individual interpretation of the Bible since all are allowed their opinion and can become a magisterium of one. but in this realm one is held to a higher standard ,one that you have not attained.
Asserting discrete entities do not equal denominations without providing rigorous probative evidence will not be accepted.
Why is it so difficult to accept that the reformation led to untold fractions within Christianity. Just open your eyes and see how many Mom and Pop store front churches there are in this nation.
It appears your current analysis of secular data parallels the individual interpretations of spiritual data namely the bible and so is it time for you to swim the Tiber or become atheists?
And yet you're still posting :)
I’m sure Alex has no sinister agenda. Well, pretty sure. But ignoring salient facts isn’t like him, IF he had a pertinent answer....
PS, Alex, I pinged you to this post. Just in case you missed it.
You paint a word picture much as Van Gogh played the cello. There is nothing like getting lost in the story of big words and clap-trap to make a person beg to be released from such torture. "But I must play my cello" says Van Gogh, "the more I play, the more people will understand that I CAN play, it is just they who have been ignorant of my talent. If their ears bleed, it can only be a result of their inability to hear the music behind the unfortunate squeaks of the strings. I shall play louder, then they will learn."