Fruitcake

29Jul09

Religion? Christian. No adjectives.

I am not a conservative Christian, not an evangelical Christian, not a fundamentalist Christian, not a church-going Christian, not Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox, not a non-denominational Christian, not a Christian existentialist, not a Christian rationalist, but not irrational, and most of all, not especially religious. They’re all nice words but each of them is too pure for me.

If I started a church it would be called the First Christian Baptist Methodist Orthodox Pentecostal Existentialist Armenian Revivalist Non-Nondenominational Church of Current Day Anybody. Every week I’d spin a giant wheel filled with random words to add or delete. And then I’d leave because churches bore me.

I’ve visited every type and sub-type of Christianity and always felt like a round peg in a square hole. And then I realized no one could peg me. I’m not a peg. I’m more like a fruitcake. Strange but familiar. Unpredictable, but not necessarily good. A little of this, a little of that, all ground up and baked into a crazy incoherent unsolicited Christmas gift that looks weird and tastes like everything. And I can’t help it.

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