In a study of history one finds reason to doubt the authority claimed by the elite insofar as it betrays the limited and sometimes prejudiced perspective of the human mind. One wonders whether anyone should have the authority over others often claimed, given the errors people are capable of in understanding the Gospel and putting it into practice. 
   I have discovered that a return to the Jewish roots of the faith show a morality based on how we treat our brother and sister, and the teachings of Jesus reinforcing this interpersonal ethic and giving it, quite literally, flesh. 
   In doing online research one finds an endless harping over finer points of doctrine based upon what passes for Scriptural exegesis when in fact the whole point of the incarnation of Christ in fulfillment of the Prophets is lost altogether in a conceptual divide of schizophrenic proportions. 
   One MUST question the faith, or one becomes false to oneself and betrays one's conscience.