Good comment
Any church which brain washes instead of encouraging the attendee to think for them selves is a stumbling block.
With all respect, I may not believe in your notion of ‘stumbling blocks’.
Our Lord came. A lot of what he said was open to interpretation, and a lot of interpretations grew up around His words and life.
Some of those interpretations make sense to some people, and some to others.
The important thing is that people find their way to the God that is within them; and that’s going to be a somewhat different path for each person.
(I don’t understand this perpetual *fighting* over something that is supposed to be about LOVE. It seems to me that if people were actually following the instruction of Jesus, we wouldn’t see threads like this.
Religion, on FR, seems to have become just more “politics”.)