Oh hey… Uh, welcome to my “about” page. If you’re here, I guess that means you either want to know who wrote something you came across here (perhaps because you disagreed with it?) or you want to know what positions are the foundation of this site, what “statement of faith” it adheres to.
I get it. I remember painstakingly crafting statements of faith for a variety of websites I’ve dreamt up and managed in the past — blogs, wikis, message boards, and old school static websites cobbled together with Microsoft FrontPage. I saw other Christian websites had one and assumed that it was just something Christians did.
Over time, I began to get more and more specific with the items on the page. I wanted — I needed to make sure anyone who visited my corner of the internet knew that I was a conservative fundamentalist Baptist who believed in Once Saved, Always Saved, accepted only the King James Version of the Bible as the plenary inspired and inerrant Word of God, and that at the end of the world, the Church would be raptured before the Great Tribulation which itself occurred before Christ’s millennial reign on Earth. Oh, and evolution was hokum because the earth and the rest of reality was created within seven days as literally described in Genesis.
And if you deviated from those things, you were being led astray by the doctrines of devils or worldly compromises or what have you.
I did my best to erect a wall of orthodoxy between myself and the world. I argued with people online and in person about this stuff. I was fully convinced in the righteousness of my beliefs.
Over time, I realized through numerous arguments and plenty of independent learning that a lot of what I had taken for granted as orthodoxy was either mistaken or outright wrong — and I’m sure I’ll talk about those things elsewhere here in time.
Consequently, my outlook, my worldview, has changed over the years, in small adjustments or wild pendulum swings.
Where do I stand now? I don’t know. No, really. I wish I did. I try to. But no matter how well I can argue for atheism or Christianity or free will or determinism… it all feels absurd. Solid answers feel just out of reach.
So I’m going to share what I know here — what I think I know, anyway — and maybe together, we can sort out some of my thoughts together.