(V): Don't take this as a critcism, because it's not... I've fallen into the same trap, and even after I learned to recognise the trap I still find myself falling into it.

I believe you are equating the core tenets of Judaism and Christianity with institutional (organized) religion, which itself has deviated from those same simple (childlike, if you will) tenets.

So now you've found an alternative (or alternatives) to a mismanaged and corrupt system of belief that became corrupt due to abandoning those same tenets. Switching over for another system that doesn't even pretend to adhere to those tenets is a waste of time and effort... it accomplishes less than nothing, because abandoning a system that only pretends to adhere to its tenets for one that wholesale rejects them is like jumping off a cliff to avoid falling into a hole. None of us can afford to waste our time indefinitely, because someday the testing and searching will stop and all of this will come to a conclusion.