Here’s the thing I don’t get.  I’ve met some critics who have questioned about “my choice of faith” (as though it’s something taken out of an airline menu — “Chicken or fish?” “Atheism or Christianity?  … with a side order of agnosticism?”)

And when I do answer, “Christian.”  They roll their eyes and snidely conclude things such as I probably chose that because I was born in it or it was something that was taught to me.  Like you know, the thought of Jesus simply slid into my subconscious and embedded in my brain like a microchip wherein I robotically answer, “Christian” in monotone.

(Yes, I know that sounded like a snide reply as well but I hear Christians are allowed to make jokes sometimes.)

I am sure that’s what most critics think, especially of Christianity in general, probably given the fact that there is a large percentage of those in the ruling powers of America and Europe.  At least currently.

What I don’t get it of course is that way back in history, this is all backwards.  In the Roman times, you get this question on your “choice of faith” and you say, “Roman,” you get this same response.  That was back in the day.  That was because Socrates and Plato came back in vogue then so believing in Athena meant you’re just not so learned or something.

I think people in whatever time they live want to question the status quo and so would conclude that people who have made their “choice of faith” to be simpletons who take whatever is served at them.

Well, I tell you.  Christianity was never an easy route.  I bet you right now that no Christian would ever say that the choice came simply to them in a dream and they just got right on it.  Even and especially, children of pastors would attest to this very thing.  These kids grew up surrounded by everything Christian that I heard one of them say she can conduct all kinds of services at 16.  Yet most of them never got around to embracing this faith until a later age.  Some of them haven’t even done that either.

Most stories of Christians were even astonishing tales of conversion.  Some came through a rough past like a divorce or an even more dangerous criminal pasts.

So no, I would not say that the choice of faith easily slides into someone just because they grew up with it or grew up surrounded with it.

Yet ultimately, what you might want to ask is that gee… after all this time, how can Christians stand by their “choice of faith.”  The mainstream view is that nothing is absolute, but hold on because you might want to ask a Christian.  To most questions, there’s just yes and no.

It’s not fair to think Christians are simpletons for not questioning everything we believe in.  We did.  But we’re just done with questioning everything we believe in.

Because now we know the answer.