There's Only One Path In Life. The Path Of You.
There’s an assumption you don’t even know you’re making until something forces you to examine it. For me, that assumption was simple and seemingly unassailable. Being human meant being part of some religion. That’s how the world worked. Everyone was Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or Hindu or Buddhist or something. You didn’t choose whether … Read more
I was sitting at the front of the church with a couple dozen or so other kids who’d survived Sunday school with me, and I had the body of Christ dissolving into mush in my mouth while trying to figure out how to discretely spit out the Son of God without anyone noticing. The communion … Read more
The promise was simple, repeated so often it became background noise. Be obedient. Be pious. Follow the rules. And you’ll be rewarded. Maybe not on earth, because earthly happiness (which was perhaps not even real or just a delusion) was trivial compared to eternal salvation, but certainly in the afterlife. Heaven for the good, hell … Read more