I’ve been pretty active on a LiveJournal community called Convert Me, where I step up representing a reformed Christianity. It’s a pretty vicious place: a comment that simply said “God loves you and is looking for an excuse to bless you. He’s not mad at you, he loves you.” opened up a 60+ comment rant log.

I was asked by one of the people to explain why there was a Christ. What’s the point? This gets back to the whole fundamental basis of Christianity, so the commentary is going to be a bit long.

What’s interesting is how hard this has been to write down. It’s weird: I can go to town in a dialog with someone else on this topic, but there’s something particularly difficult about just sitting down and writing this all out. I guess it just seems so huge — it’s being asked to explain integral calculus without even agreeing on rudimentary arithmetic. And there’s something just improper feeling about discussing religion without being in dialog with someone else. I’m not sure why I feel that way, but I do. It’s all weird.

In any case, here’s the post.

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