Religion: Listening to fact or opinion?

So yesterday, that article I wrote on forgiveness was something I was asked to do and I felt that that topic was something I was contemplating and turning over in my head for a while so why not put pen to paper. I feel a good deal better actually, so I am going to keep to this trend and post another piece which I think might be therapeutic for me to write about.

Various religions and why it is so important to believers of their faith to question others and their lifestyles?

Now I may be the only one who looks at it this way but then again, it might not be so. I once wrote the phrase, 'one person's fact can be another's opinion and one person's opinion can be another's facts'? Honestly, I was young when I wrote it and to this day I cant really say I truly explained what I meant at the time, but I think my teacher got it, considering I got an excellent grading for it.
Basically when you break it down, it's like saying being a vegetarian is a healthy lifestyle, can help to alleviate world hunger and give you added benefits of living a longer life, you, the meat eater should stop what you are doing because I, the vegetarian, think it is wrong and I am right because the books the scientists wrote said so.

To fully understand my way of thinking, you have to look at the world through my eyes. If something isn't explained to me properly, I don't pursue it. If something is of importance to you but I have to stop what I am doing to pretend it is of importance to me, instant rejection because the fact that you came to me with such a thing in the first place is just disrespectful. All in all, I am a selfish person, but the good kind of selfish.

So if you are a Baptiste, roman catholic or even Adventist, I have no problem with that. Everyone is entitled to their views, opinions and beliefs. But when you start to leave and encroach on my space and demand I follow you because 'it is right', then you just broke every code of ethics you said you were or are living by.

I am a practical person, so my way of deducing things are if not unconventional. I am not going to quote anything from the hundreds of bibles there seems to be out there in this century, but I can use anything as an example. "Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water." Say that phrase was in the bible. Simple enough, to the practical mind, they just went for water, but to the Baptiste's mind, they went to pick flowers and pray, to the Roman Catholics mind, they went to get water to scrub down the house because the water at the top of the mountain is the freshest there is. Now the Adventist would deduce that the neighbour was sick so the children took it upon them selves to help out by re-filling the containers for them because it is the prerogative of the child to help the elder or anyone in need of free labour. (Yet again, this is my opinion from my observations)

When all three of these 'teachings clash' at one point, it is a war field. Competitions start, insults fly, and I have seen a few fist fights in my day. My question really is, if the bible or the teaching of Jesus or God is the same thing, why is it everyone wants to turn it, spin it, twist it into something that sounds new and something they came up with and could explain better?