Whenever something new or different comes into my life, I tend to obsess on that thing, researching and learning about it until I know everything about it. I often do this to the exclusion of other things that are just as important, or more so, than the subject of my obsession.

When God opened my eyes earlier this year and allowed me to truly see my bisexual orientation, I started researching everything I could find about being a gay Christian. As always, I tended to be a bit obsessive in my research. I was acutely aware that it would be quite easy for me to get lost in the “gay,” and forget about the “Christian” part.

In what I'm sure is a complete coincidence, soon after writing the previous post, I ran across a book titled Letters From a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father's Questions about Christianity. After reading the summary and reviews, I pounced on this book immediately.

It's a pretty easy read. I sailed through it in about 4 hours. The structure of the book is an ongoing dialogue addressing questions that many people, believer and agnostic alike, have about God and Christianity. In a series of letters written between an unbelieving dad and his believing son, many hard questions are asked and answered, then turned over and debated some more. This is not a book of pat answers or easy questions.

What I came away from this book with was the realization that it is not the Gospel that I wrestle with. What I have issues with is the fundamentalist propaganda with which I was indoctrinated after becoming a Christian.