I was raised Roman Catholic. Stepped away from it in college.

At this point, my understanding of Christianity is very different from what I was spoon fed by the exoteric tradition in which I was immersed growing up.

At this point, I consider mainstream exoteric Christian teachings to be incredibly distorted, just like mainstream Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu teachings all are distorted.

They all also contain truth, and they all correspond with one another in this way or that way.

At this point I regard each religious tradition as I would regard a witness giving testimony in a courtroom. Each witness testimony feeds the quest for truth. There's no sense in playing favorites with witnesses. Each contributes something important.

When I was growing up, I got caught up in the same crap that all dogmatists get caught up in which is the us vs them mentality. It's divisive and antithetical to the "love your neighbor as yourself" concept.

That said, I'll never go back to dogmatism in any form which is where I started, however I have found my way to having an appreciation for Christ and his actual, undistorted teachings that are consistent with the many other traditions.