Instapundit links to a survey for those who don't fit in at church.
This is one of those surveys that I don't seem to fit at all... maybe because I fit too well, in the sense of completely not fitting in at any known church.
One of the questions, though, gets my attention:
Do you (or did you) feel that you don't fit in because you were mistreated by the church, or because you are a relatively shy, introverted person? Please give specific examples of ways in which you feel different and/or out of place.
OK, now this brings up a memory of the last time I attended a regular church service. I wasn't brought up religious, and generally shun any sort of consecrated ground (because my kind don't belong there, or because the stone walls of churches keep the Goddess out, take your pick), but several years ago an ex-girlfriend was all inspired about a new church she'd joined (I don't recall the name, but a certain well-known software guy is a member) and insisted on taking me along one Sunday.
I certainly wasn't mistreated. Everyone was friendly, and they all seemed like nice people, but...
...I just couldn't relate to their theology. No how, no way. The whole Christianity business is utterly alien to me. Whether I'm congenitally apsychic or merely genetically programmed to reject heretical religious beliefs*, I just find the whole Son-of-God thing (and, for that matter, the personal anthropomorphic Creator of the Universe thing) incomprehensible.
*Heretical relative to what, I don't know. Possibly some form of paleo-Judaism. So far, I haven't found a religion I could relate to**, but then I haven't exactly been looking.
** Not strictly true. I can, for example, relate just fine to Asatru. I just don't believe in it. This would seem to put it in the fun-but-pointless category.
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