We are sailors true but sometimes we are aloud to think outside that square. If I am outa line just tell me and I'll flag it. Some people have shown an interest in it. It would not require defining what are acceptable spiritual beliefs but how those beliefs are taught and reinforced. Everyone should be aloud to believe what they like for sure. The Catholic church stole that from me as I was too terrified to think of investigating any other form of spiritual way of being. When I was five through ten I was being told every day that there were demons everywhere waiting for me on the way home and even in my home and that I had to keep a constant conversation with god to stay safe.
If I went and told your five year old every day that demons were everywhere and that your child would burn in hell if the demons got to him or her you would rightly come to my house and whack me....hard. Why can churches prey so clinically on children and leave such terrible visions on their young mind? There is a huge social cost with thousands of people with PTS.
I am not only talking bout Christianity. We can see the results other religions have created with mad dogma and the way they are delivered it.