It’s December 1, and today I am a Christian.
Okay, so technically, I started out life as a Christian, so this isn’t exactly a news flash. And I have to admit that my motives for being Christian this month are somewhat selfish—I wanted to have Christmas. Yes, I know—I’m no better than a 6-year-old child. Hey, I never claimed to be mature.
But this time, I’m going to look at Christianity differently. Instead of just blindly accepting what I’m told, I’m going to delve deeper and try to understand what Christians really believe and why.
I was raised Catholic, so I know a little bit about that already, but I’ll still spend some time trying to revisit Catholicism—and maybe trying to figure out what exactly made me leave the Church in the first place.
But I won’t stop there. I’m going to explore other forms of Christianity, from Eastern Orthodox to various Protestant denominations. I’ll go to church, even if the boredom kills me. And I’m going to read the Bible cover to cover, something I tried to do once as a child (although I gave up somewhere along the way because all the “begats” were making me want to claw my eyes out).
This month may seem like it won’t be much of a journey into the unknown, but, in some ways, Christianity feels more foreign to me than faiths like Hinduism or Shinto. I recognize that I have my own selfish biases against certain aspects of Christianity, so I’m going to do my best to be objective and not to let my personal experiences of the past cloud my experience in the present. We’ll see what happens.
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