Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?

In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.

I broke with my religion in college.

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

But death we are, and death we've always been.