I'm 25 years old now, and for as long as I can remember I've been asking myself and
others that same question. Who am I? And believe me when I tell you that this question
has taken me to some weird, dangerous, and beautiful places in my young life. One of
those places being church or organized religion. Don't get me wrong I'm not talking
about your typical Sunday school appearances as a child or making sure you're seen at
church for holidays and special occasions. But, rather a conscious and sincere
involvement in the whole religious experience. And it has been my experience, that
religion at least from the Christian point of view is broken down into three categories.
You have the sinner, the saved, and the lost. The whole sinner, saved, and lost theory
stems and gets it's drawing power from the fact that there's supposedly a supreme,
loving, and all-powerful being that the human race(started by Adam ) has somehow
severed their relationship with. And in doing so, consequences and repercussions have
been put into effect that we as a whole need salvation from. All of these categories are
significant and have their own autobiographies that can be written and read for years to
come, but it's my job to cram as much of it as possible into a three to five page essay.
First we have the sinner, who makes up 60 to 70(rough estimates mind you) percent of
the world. These group of people are comprised of those that haven't heard about our
need for salvation and the ones that just simply reject this need. To be honest this
category is actually a lot broader than what you would think. It is also filled with many
people that desperately cling to their excuses, traditions, way of life and truly don't want
to consider salvation until they have gotten their fill of the things that they supposedly
need to be saved from. ...