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Sitting at an event at a local arts organization for people with lived experience of addictions and mental health thinking that more people need to know about this, the world needs more of this and it dawned on me what's wrong with Christianity Hell and the great commission. Both of which came late

Neither of those things are in the text itself, the great commission is thought by many scholars to be an add in and hell came much later, it's read backwards into things that now seem clear and obvious but only because we've been told what that's what it means. Much like the rapture.

Before that it was a way to relate to the world around us, material and spiritual. If you find something that works for you, like that arts organization, you want other people to know about it. But I'm not threatening anyone with punishment if it's not for them. I'm not saying we can't be friends

Maybe in response they tell me about something that works for them. No coercion. Just people finding and building communities that they can fit into and that make sense to them. But also leaving room for other people to fit into things that make sense to them.

In a podcast interview with a church a couple of years ago the pastor asked me what Christians should do differently and I said they should stop proselytizing so this isn't a completely new thought. I just saw it differently, that's all.

And somehow this is colliding with a conversion my kid and I had about the TV show From and how completely predictable the characters are no matter what happens.