Let’s play a little game.  Try to imagine that Christianity had died, as a practicing religion, centuries ago.  Now imagine for a minute that we are cultural anthropologists assigned to dig through the vast repositories of Christian thought and Christian writings to reveal exactly who this god is that this Christian religion believed and worshiped.  The problem is that we don’t have the benefits of tradition or the ability to look at this religion being lived out in everyday life. Not only do we have to try to sort through the thought of Eastern and Western Christianity, the High Church, Protestantism and all of its varying denominations, but also the offshoots like Mormonism and Jehovah’s Witness, and don’t forget about all of the doomsday cults and heretical movements over the past two thousand years.  Think about it for a minute.  What kind of picture do you think you would get?

Post Edited (MrIndifference) : 10/18/2005 11:44:41 PM (GMT-5)