text: Theology, doctrine and religion are all designed for the sole purpose of controlling other people by those who espouse and define those terms. 
  
  I don't know what you mean by this or how you can make a universal statement of this nature. Are you stating every person that claims the Bible is authoritative is doing so in an attempt to exert personal control over people ? That may be true if the control is directed towards and delegated to Christ. I fail to see how you can make an authoritative statement on this being an agnostic who has very limited exposure to the Christian Church.
  
  The examples you cite may be legitimate, but the Christian Church has one head, and that is Christ (according , and we are to obey him and not man, the Bible is clear on this. The examples you cite do not line up with the true Christian Church.