I wouldn’t be a Christian

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That’s the problem, really. Most of the time, I feel like I’m speaking a different language to a theist. We must be looking at the same reality, but our approaches are so different that I can’t find a way to integrate them.

Some theists do employ decent amounts of scepticism, and I follow them up to that point; then they veer off and they totally lose me. The only form of theism that makes sense to me is a sort of emotional deism, where you feel there must be (or must have been) a creator, but that you don’t try to justify it further than that or make any claims about the creator. Everything else feels like trying to shoe-horn in things that don’t fit.