On being a Christian agnostic.
Traditionalism conceptualizes the divine in all-or-nothing terms – either there exists an omniscient, omnipotent creator God or there is no higher power, scripture consisting entirely of fairy tales.
This reflects the All-or-Nothing fault common in much collective thinking. Climate change commentary is either doomsday or denial. Racism is said either ubiquitous or entirely eliminated. Politics is either far right or far left. There are numerous arenas in which we use an All-or-Nothing framework.
Which rules out the many possibilities in between.
In the All-or-Nothing view, either events happen because God wills them – God wills poverty, earthquakes, school shootings, massacres of innocents in Israel and Gaza – or there is no larger impulse, that religion nonsense made up by people who wanted money and social control.
Which rules out the many possibilities in between.
Maybe there is a preexistent creator God, maybe there is nothing beyond our fallen selves. I don’t pretend to know.
Maybe Christ was a supernatural child, maybe he was a regular guy born with talent. I don’t pretend to know.
I do know Jesus was a gentle man who taught us to love one another.
That’s why I am a Christian agnostic.
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