Thank you for taking the time to reply. I think I understand better where you’re coming from now. I guess I wasn’t approaching this matter of faith’s complexity with much sin-consciousness at all. I’m pretty sure when I’m missing the mark, and that’s simple to me. (Sometimes I might live in denial, sure) But the subtleties and intricacies of faith are about so much more than sin management (or even personal-sin-absolution) to me – they’re about God, for one, and our apprehension of God; faith is about people for another, and the cosmos, and evil (y’know, theodicy – okay, I guess that’s sin-related) and the scope of redemption and the limitation of human experience and the public/political dimensions of faith, our liturgies/worship practices, altered states of consciousness, histories, and so much more.

Some people ‘feel’ too intellectual to me, too ‘mindy’ – I get that. But I feel like the good Lord has gifted me with both an insatiable curiosity but also a certain baseline shallowness. Whereas some of my more intellectual friends’ thinking might lead them to question the existence of God or what have you, for whatever reason I’ve never been able to go there. But I have the utmost empathy (and even respect) for those who do go there. And I don’t feel like they’re all going there because they’re trying to justify some repressed sin – perhaps that’s where we might differ.

Again, thanks for the conversation!

My suggestion for masking your domain would be to call it theloneranger.com

And yes, I understand the part about masking and appreciate the change It was causing my too much work when I wanted to get a permalink to email someone a particular post…

In a dark room even a 25 watt bulb is brilliant. I …..am…..that……bulb…

Simple is goooood..