Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
-Emerson

Converts hate saints, indeed. In truth I don't understand this, but it does spark a thought. I think piety is a joke and a misery. I have fallen so far away from Christianity that, were I to bare all, only God would still call me a Christian. There are so many things in this religion that are so contradictory. Sin and shame and guilt. The idea of a single route to divinity. I could make dwell on each of these and write an entire journal. I probably will.

Only divinity keeps me around. Only God. Is this church? Is it religion to have nothing but faith in God? Or does the idea of religion dictate an adherence to more. Must I pay more than lip service to the traditions? Or is my silence in the face of these traditions a hypocracy and the greatest sin.

What would Jesus do?

Would he sit and let a stagnant, dominant religion reign supreme; oppressing millions by misquoting archaic decisions? No indeed! The most Christian thing to do is to pull the masses back from the edge. To show everyone that you do not need to follow tradition and dogmatic law to find God. All you need is that spark. That sense of awe and wonder and reverence at the majesty of the universe.

God grant me the courage to throw the moneychangers out of the temple and confound the pharacies with the simplicity of the truth! Alas that I have not that courage. The world could use a Messiah right about now....