This thread is one of the reasons I do not belong to any organized religion. I cannot believe what I am reading.
With all the lies in the world, why would you think lying could not take place in the area of religion?
Why would you be surprised? There will always be counterfeits masqurading as the real deal, and it’s always been so.
Not just in matters of faith but pretty much anything that is good....always an opposite presentation given with just enough truth to entice the ‘uninformed’.
Additionally Christianity isn’t about being religious...it’s about a relationship with God...and that is thru His son Jesus Christ who makes that possible. All other “religions” serve dead or imagined prophets or idols but Christianity serves a risen Savior. He is alive and sits at the hand of God the Almighty.
Many false religions and occults will always use and abuse, borrow and steal, Christian verbage, language etc. becuase it works to reel people in. Without that deception people generally wouldn’t give these groups the time of day.