What else are they wrong about?!?

By Roger Curley
February 25, 2026

Tara Leigh

If there are 45,000 versions of “the truth,” maybe certainty isn’t the flex we think it is.

There are over 45,000 Christian denominations. OVER FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND.

Same central figure, same foundational text.

45,000 versions of “okay but we’re the ones who actually got it right.”

Then zoom out and you’re looking at somewhere between 4,000 and 10,000 religions worldwide.

Thousands of belief systems. Thousands of origin stories. Thousands of explanations for God, for suffering, for purpose, and

for what happens when we die.

And almost every single one carries some version of the same headline, “this is the way”.

I am not mocking faith.

I was raised Catholic. Went to Catholic School, attended church regularly.

Went to a Christian church as well.

(Past tense to all that, by the way. I’ve studied various religions for decades. After all, knowledge is power. ;)).

What I am saying is

there’s a lot of absolute certainty floating around on one tiny planet.

But the math ain’t mathing.

We have ancient texts, traditions, interpretations, personal experiences, cultural inheritance.

What we don’t have is measurable proof that any one religion is the exclusive cosmic answer key.

No lab test. No divine scoreboard. No verified stamp that says, congratulations, you chose correctly.

Yet billions of people are completely convinced they did.

And some try their damnedest to convince others of the same.

Here is where I start raising an eyebrow.

When religion becomes the argument for death, genocide, oppression, or destruction,

maybe that is the moment to step back and say wait a minute.

If your path to God requires harming other human beings, something has gone very wrong.

Add to that the literalists who read every line like it is a modern instruction manual instead of

layered history, poetry, metaphor, and cultural context.

That part feels absurd to me.

You can have faith without turning your brain off.

These texts were compiled over centuries, translated and retranslated, edited, debated, and

formally assembled by councils of men who decided which books made the cut and which ones did not.

Entire writings were left out.

Interpretations shifted. Political pressures existed.

And that is before you even get to the thousands of internal tensions and contradictions scholars have pointed out for generations.

Pretending it dropped from the sky in leather binding, perfectly uniform and context free,

requires more faith in the editing process than in God.

Believe what you want. Truly. To each their own.

Spirituality is personal.

Just maybe rethink it if your certainty starts demanding blood or declaring everyone else damned by default.

You are free to believe whatever comforts you.

That’s your sovereign right. That’s called faith.

Faith is trust or confidence in something without having empirical proof,

a belief held based on conviction, experience, or spiritual assurance

rather than measurable evidence.

And nothing wrong with that.

Just don’t shove your faith down someone else’s throat or use it to defend murder and wrongdoing.

With forty five thousand Christian branches alone,

the confidence is impressive. The humility, not so much.

My spiritual beliefs may not line up with yours, and that’s okay.

I’m not standing here pretending I’ve cracked the cosmic code.

And I have all the answers. I could be wrong. And if that’s true for me, it’s true for you too.

~Tara Leigh

There are well over 45,000 organized documented denominations of Christianity

with the headquarters and explicit reasons why they had to correct God’s mistake.

At first they’ll say God is infallible the Bible was written by the infallible hand of God but he messed up over 45,000 times

now that number is actually quite low….

They’re actually over 66,000 denominations with separate churches they just didn’t do the paperwork to create their own denomination.

And that figure is way low cuz if you consider the entire planet

there’s hundreds of thousands of denominations of Christianity alone.

Humanity has collectively worshiped over 5000 deities gods and holy what nots…

But all boils down to this there’s two kinds of people …

the people that know… and the people that believe.

What I know is that most people’s beliefs have been supporting statistic human tragedy for millennia