For the past, I don't know, decade or so, I have been a little obsessed with Christianity.
This obsession is understandable on account that my life was totally upturned by my (somewhat) sudden loss of faith, leaving me with no clue what to do with my life now that I wasn't going to be a preacher.
Yesterday, my therapist asked me to explore who I "really am" since I said that I always feel like I am putting on a show when I am in public and that people like the show, but probably wouldn't like the "real me."
Well, who is the real you? she asked. What would you be like without the mask?
I am working on that. I'll write it up soon.
But here's the thing that came to me today while I went for my walk:
If I wasn't obsessed with Christianity, my interests would focus largely on culture.
Specifically on trends, memes, tropes, cliches, and behavioral patterns.
Why do people act the way they do?
This is why I think I love movies and books as much as I do. I love seeing the way humans see themselves.
I used to believe that art and literature where ways to find Truth. I no longer think that.
I now think that these are ways to see someone's perception of Truth. A specific truth that is embodied within a particular time and worldview.
Science fiction always says more about our present than it does our future.
Our culture's current obsession with post-apocalyptic worlds and zombies is a reflection of where we are right now as a people.
And I think this is partially why I am obsessed with Christianity.
Since well before I could speak or walk, I was told--ad nauseam--that Christianity was the one and only Truth.
And though I no longer believe that it is so, I think it does make a really excellent case study for what our culture values at any given point in time.
Because Christianity changes with the culture. It evolves along side us. And by comparing what Christians valued in the 1760's to the 1950's to the Reagan era to today, we can really see who we are as humans and what it is that we care about. How things change constantly but never consciously. How we are all just along for the ride, foolishly believing that things are now how they have always been.
It's all really fascinating. At least it is to me.
I don't know how to end this post.
So I am going to just do it.
right.
now.
5:13 p.m. - 2015-07-14
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