I couldn’t see myself as a once a week, hold hands and sing kind of believer. If I genuinely believed that I was following a god that had his teachings written up, surely it’d be my duty to study those, right? How could someone believe in an immortal soul and not actually care about where that belief came from?

So not that I’d become more ethical, but that I’d feel the pull to become more ethical, and that this picture would have a more personal response. I don’t think Christians are any more moral than anyone else, but I don’t understand the ones who simultaneously believe they follow the teachings of a man who drove out the moneylenders from his temple and whose eyes gloss over things like this without finding it distasteful.