Dear friend we are all just having a go at a very difficult subject. What I post is the best I can do at this moment in time and I will never lay claim to being an expert on anything. I only offer an opinion and you are just as likely to change my opinion as anybody else.
Thank you for thinking I sounded like an expert, but alas, it is not possible to be a religious expert or anything approaching an infallible authority.
As for religions losing their way. I'm a very simple man but I see there are at least 41,000 versions of Christianity and 1 Jesus and 1 God. That seems like losing the way to me. I see Muslims destroying countless innocent lives and subjugating women to second rate citizens. Preventing them from getting an education when the first person who should receive an education is the female because she can then educate her children.
It's kind of obvious isn't it that certain religions are falling to pieces? We don't need to be experts to see something as clear as the midday sun.