Hi Gary,

Your dad sounds like a wonderful person. I know what you mean, it’s all so confusing when you can’t throw the entire baby out with the bathwater (such a strange expression) because you’ve seen healthy and loving Christianity. The current mainstream iteration does seem to be an entirely cultural creation… After I wrote this article, I read Pagan Christianity by Frank Viola and George Barn and Zealot by Reza Aslan, both of which I found really interesting. Not entirely relevant to the topics in my article but tangentially relevant, if you’re interested and haven’t read them yet.

Anyway, thank you again for taking the time to respond so thoughtfully and discuss this tough cultural moment we’re in together.