Easter Sunday

Today is Easter Sunday, one of the few days each year when I reacquaint myself with the Christian faith.  I attended a service this morning at the Church of the Holy Trinity, which is conveniently located just a block away.  Our friend Jason was in town for the weekend, and tagged along.  Helen is firm in her atheism, so she stayed behind.

I grew up in a conservative Christian church, and continued my dogmatic ways as I began college.  But after four years of living among people of various faiths, I could no longer accept the idea that only the Christians were on the path to salvation. So I abandoned my church commitments.

I do miss the preaching and singing, however, which is why I use the holidays as an excuse to  check out a new church.  I wish it were possible to "take what I want and leave the rest," as Mom advised me to do. But the reality is that it's all of a piece, which means that the uplifting ceremony supports beliefs that make no sense. 

More liberal churches try to have it both ways, with a mushy theology that doesn't say much.  Take it or leave it, I say.  And right now I'm happy to leave it.

Comments

[Helen]

I don't agree that the beliefs "make no sense." Even as an atheist, I think the Christian beliefs make sense. I just don't buy the basis of the beliefs.