Every once and a while I ask myself, “Why are you answering questions no one is asking? Just talk about things that are less controversial. It is much safer and much more popular.” On the surface this sounds reasonable, but under the surface, lurks more to be considered. Who really knows the secret questions of anyone else’s mind and heart? Some people have questions they will never admit they have to other Christian people, for fear of being criticized or ostracized. Some may even think God would disapprove of their questions. Many have simply never thought things through to the point they have noticed the glaring contradictions in what most Christians says they believe. I continue to believe that on the other end of this blog there are some inquisitive minds and empty hearts searching for more. There are people living with deeply troubling incongruencies—thing they feel obligated to believe that do not fit with the Good Father they have come to know or hear about. Many people are asking valid questions internally. This blog may be viewed as dangerous by many defenders of the status quo, but it is a safe place for seekers to drop in and out of. Sure I would like all of these blog posts to go viral, and I think they should. I would like readers to flock to it and enthusiastically repost, but I will settle for being the place where hungry people, dissatisfied with the doctrine and traditions they have heard all their lives, go for truth. Truth has a ring to it. You know it when you hear it. I have chosen this blog to be a place where you can hear what you never have heard before. Not because it is new information tailored to fit our times, but because it is a restoration of what ancient Christians knew, but we have lost over the centuries. So much of today’s popular theology is not in line with the original beliefs of early Christianity. Sneak on quietly or loudly promote it. I do not care how you come to the Rethink Tank. I am confident that if you do, you will experience increasing freedom from the bondages of religion and tradition.
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