“So Christianity hasn’t made you any better or worse?
I don’t think it has.
Has it made any difference at all?”
.I think my God is interested in more than me listening to him. I think he is curious about who I am and who I was and who I will become. I think relationship is why. I think love is why.
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“And this is my doing?
I am told it is.
And what do you see in the mirror now? “
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He and I are having another chat. This time not just around the bible but about this whole “religion thing”.
And once again I have no idea where the words are going.
Please – you are welcome to listen in – even chat a little if you want.
Thank you –
Paul
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What would you have been if there wasn’t any Christianity?
I think the same as I am now.
So Christianity hasn’t made you any better or worse?
I don’t think it has.
Has it made any difference at all?
Yes. It has made me look at myself in a mirror. Made me consider what it is I am seeing in the mirror.
And what do you see?
I see someone who should, who must, who ought to. Someone called a “sinner”. Someone tainted for no reason than someone else says so. Like being black. Like being gay. Like being anything that someone disapproves of. Just in my case a “sinner” because someone says I am.
And I get angry when I see that reflection. I was born an innocent baby. And I am a granddad now and I have seen innocent babies. Innocent babies who are the most…
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