Yes, I've "deconstructed." What my "reconstruction" looks like:

The Bible: Less inspired, univocal, inerrant, authoritative “word of God,” but a collection of stories from various Judaic and Canaanite religious traditions often harmonized to tell how they relate to a monotheistic god (the Old Testament; background and framework), along with a handful of Messianic and apocalyptic early antiquity texts (the New Testament) by well to do and highly educated writers, curated to rebrand and evolve the cult with a contemporary (Greek/Roman), post second Jerusalem temple destruction, religious worldview. (But do the contents of each and every text warrant veneration? Certainly not.)

Jesus: Less “only Son of God,” sinless, perfect sacrifice, physically resurrected and returning bodily, but an itinerant apocalyptic teacher from a marginalized perspective (growing up outside of Sepphoris during its transition to Tiberius, following John the Baptist, and interaction with women and outsiders being significant) who developed a revolutionary, reformed approach to experiencing the Divine that points beyond doctrine or dogma, politics or powers. (And we should understand, we have no writings of his own, only conflicting partial attributions.)

The Church: Less “body or bride of Christ,” and more of a consolidation of power that began as various “ Party of Jesus” home groups sharing and supporting one another under Roman occupation, growing alongside (and sometimes even within) reformed Jewish and Roman worldviews under a distinctive sub-culture—before becoming an organizational entity. (Such an assembly as we call it now never existed within scripture.)

Christianity: Less “one true religion,” but framework of cultic traditions forced to harmonize and create a “universal” set of beliefs and practices, now a continually highly-structured system of fragmenting, adapting and evolving expressions (some helpful, some harmful).

What this means for me, today, is that Christianity is mostly a culture, a uniform, something we put on and identify with and identify others within a people group, one that has the ability to cross race, sex, age, caste, and regional language—although it has its own “language” of sorts, as vocational and cultural groups often do. Its foundation is the adherence to the Bible as scripture, Jesus as metaphysical savior, and the Church as its assembled authority. Thus, I am heretical, unorthodox or even non-Christian by most people’s definition, unlabelled by my own. But I find the teaching of Jesus helpful (and even congruent with what underlies Advaita Vedanta, Taoism, Buddhism, Tantric Shaivism, mysticism, etc) with how we relate to one another and to a deeper Oneness (in everything).

I'm ever growing, ever learning, so this too has some flexability. I gladly accept its impermanence.

I'm also happy to chat about anything religious or spiritual. It's still all very interesting to me!