When I realised I had been raised in a cult, I tried to cherry pick the bits I liked for a while. I started by reading the Gospels in the order they were written, using Moffat's translation, until I got to the story about Jesus getting pissed off with a fig tree that didn't have fruit out of season. This story didn't make sense to me.
I then realised that everything I thought I knew about gods had come from the cult .... everything .... nothing I thought I knew could be trusted .... I had to start from scratch, not letting my cult upbringing influence me. Why should I pick on Christianity? Because I was born into a pretend Christian family? Was Genesis just as much a fable as The Dreaming, or any other culture's creation myth?
I eventually clicked that Ian Anderson wasn't far off the mark on the cover of Aqualung a couple of decades earlier ...
In the beginning Man created God;
and in the image of Man
created he him.
2 And Man gave unto God a multitude of
names,that he might be Lord of all
the earth when it was suited to Man
3 And on the seven millionth
day Man rested and did lean
heavily on his God and saw that
it was good.
4 And Man formed Aqualung of
the dust of the ground, and a
host of others likened unto his kind.
5 And these lesser men were cast into the
void; And some were burned, and some were
put apart from their kind.
6 And Man became the God that he had
created and with his miracles did
rule over all the earth.
7 But as all these things
came to pass, the Spirit that did
cause man to create his God
lived on within all men: even
within Aqualung.
8 And man saw it not.
9 But for Christ's sake he'd
better start looking.