It all began less than five years ago when I noticed that the Bible and the churches were inconsistent in their views on the occult, for example divination is forbidden, yet the Jewish high priest was given the Urim and Thummim (Lights and Perfections), which were divinitory tools, and ordered to use them in consulting Yahweh. Fortunetelling was also forbidden, yet there were so many prophets predicting the future. The reason the Jewish priesthood outlawed the occult became obvious to me: it was a political move, as the theocracy couldn't stand to compete with others who were offering much the same services. Obviously, if the biblical writers that early on had ulterior motives, then the Bible is neither innerant nor infallible.
I also noticed the pagan ritual forms which are thinly veiled in the forms of church services (especially Mass) and exorcisms.
As for Jesus' Twelve Disciples martyring themselves for what they claimed to be true, I am sure that most leaders of psuedoreligions ("cults") would gladly do the same. After all, had the Twelve recanted, their followers would have turned against them, killing them as brutally as any Roman executionor.
Lastly, the ability to perform miracles does not prove one's exclusive divinity. Feats such as curing the sick and the insane, healing the disabled, walking on water, materializing after you die, is all quite plausible through magickal means.
Searching for the religion that most closely matched what I had personally experienced and already believed, I realized that I was, and am, neo-Pagan.
It felt great when he agreed with me.
