Like seriously! Even before you start reading, I can already hear the echoing chants of “Blasphemy! Blasphemy!” … Closing my eyes, I can almost see the placards & pitchforks being raised a la Klan. One would think it were the Spanish Inquisition … Oh! Did that get you?! Was that … too close?! To the followers of Islam smirking on the sidelines, we don´t need to go to Afghanistan & Iran for input on this, do we? As for the protestants nodding along, I think I need only mention Hillsong or Carl Lentz to bring the point home.

We´ve grown up in our respective churches and have never taken the space to query anything presented to us as Gospel truth (see what I did there?). If we question what we´ve been told, shouldn´t the answer to the truth remain the truth? What´s there to be so scared of? Conversely, we all sin as if it were a full-time pensionable job. If sinning is forgivable, isn´t questioning the faith just another forgivable sin to add to the list?

I bring this up as I was passively listening to a conversation between 2 brilliant friends who excel in all areas of their lives, and my attention was drawn when they could not say Jesus was killed. Apparently, he died. As it turns out, the Gospel doesn´t seem to refer to the ´killing´ of Jesus (not the version I have anyway), but his ´crucifixion and death on a cross´. Merriam-Webster tells me that to ´crucify´ is to put to death on a cross, and Google says killing is to cause the death of a person. I honestly never would have thought this to be a debatable topic. The point I´m trying to make is; religion shouldn´t be above questioning. The survivors of Jonestown would probably agree.

Anyway … I´ll just step to the side as you let your questions rip … I don´t want to be next to you when the lightening comes a-striking!