Perhaps because I have a strong sense of identity, I have nearly always been resistant to the cultural aspects of Christianity.
As a very young child I was averse to the arid Middle Eastern setting of Bible stories, and felt a strong counter loyalty to my verdant West Country landscape and people.
I retain an intermittent hostility to the whole practice of making "being a Christian" into the attempt to focus my thinking on strange people, somewhere else, and long ago.
I don't like the endless and recurrent practice of dwelling on Jesus stories, ancient Hebrew stories; nor of regarding Medieval society as a model to be emulated.
In this sense, I retain the impulse toward that private and spontaneous "neo paganism" of my childhood and teens.
Christianity has been primarily cultural in ways that I dislike, and which are killing the faith in a world where the culture is now essentially Satanic.
I seek a Christian faith and practice which breaks away from this historical and geographic cultural core. And stops being focused on other people.
What is needed is immediate and lived and experiential. Personal and divine. Happening here, now, to me and those I love - to my place, my country; and my mythic roots.
We ought to be able to get the idea of what is needed for salvation and Christian living... get the idea from whatever source, or none (none except our own inner experiences) ...
And Then... live in the present with an eye to eternity.
