Like most people (I think) I have a lot of conversations in my head. I really enjoy doing this because it allows for me to actually be prepared if something like the conversation actually happens in real life. Because of this a lot of my head conversations are about apologetics and theology. So I've decided that every once in a while I'm going to actually put down a bit of the conversations I have, just for fun! This one has been sort of reoccurring lately, and it's more of a response to Christopher Hitchens who said that religion is so popular because humans have the natural want to be unfree.
"I'm afraid that for me I'd have to completely disagree. In fact I would say it's exactly the opposite. I am a Christian precisely because I wish to be free. I want to be free to be who I want to be, and I'm not. Cuz I want to be honest, but I lie. I want to be generous, but I'm selfish. I want to be loving, but I often get so frustrated that I can't. I want to be good. But I am not free to be good because some part of me fights against goodness. But I know a guy who is good. And so I am doing my best to follow him. You probably have people that you have tried to follow. People that you are inspired by and want to be more like. And that's not because you want to be stuck, it's because you want to be free. You and I want to have the freedom and the capacity to be who we want to be. You want to be an excellent scientist, and I want to be good. Christianity, for me, isn't about rules, it's about becoming free of what holds me back, and I will follow that crazy man Jesus until the day that I get there."
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