From Modern Christianity, greetings!

Where to start? I guess with, "We are the sum of our past experiences." Is that a good thing? I don't know. Very easily I could say, "No, it is most definitely not a good thing." But if I were to have had the most perfect past experiences would I still feel the same? Would I see life the same way? I'd be someone different with different thoughts and goals. But you see, my past makes me bitter.

Coming from a world in which children are taught the fundamentals of their parents faith through talking cartoon vegetables. Where "Satan is a Nerd" tee-shirts are at the height of fashion, and "A Bread Crumb and Fish," is more preferable than "Abercrombie and Fitch." Where tee-shirts with a cross on them saying, "This Shirt is Illegal" are paraded around by the bold Christians. (Maybe in China it might be considered illegal. Please go over there to fulfill your need to feel like a martyr.) Where Casting Crowns (a second-rate version of second-rate mainstream music) is practically deified, and we satisfy all of our literary needs through Thomas Nelson publications. Where our Holy book is now being produced to look like a fashion magazine in the hope of making it more acceptable to the ignorant teen culture. Where questioning is encouraged as long as it stays within the confines of orthodoxy. (Beware: before beginning one's questioning, let it be known that one's salvation might coming into question by others) Where our spirituality is measured by the length of our hair, lack of tattoos, and whether we wear a skirt to church. Where transparency is being preached everywhere I look, but all I see are the most un-transparent, bigoted, selfish, self-righteous and proud individuals I have ever met. Where they make a subpar "christian" version of everything to correspond with their "separatist" lifestyle. Where our fucking replacement for Spiderman is Bibleman. And where parents make their children jump up and down before a painting of saints ascending to heaven in preparation for the rapture.  From Modern Christianity, greetings!