✝️ TREE 637 Whether or not you’re a Christian, you’re a Christian

There are exceptions to the following, but not many.

The two holidays you get the most time off work for, Christmas and Easter, are Christian holidays.

Many of the most enduringly popular names come from the bible.

The equality of all people,
giving someone a second chance after they fail because redemption is possible,
sacrificing yourself for the good of others — these are Christian ideas.

The belief that hard work is important and good for you is the Protestant work ethic.

The God you do or don’t believe in is the Christian God.

You have a Christian brain. Language is how humans think. It shapes the way we understand the world. (This is why learning another language is so valuable.) The English language is absolutely stuffed with biblical and Christian words and idioms. You think Christian.

Whether you’ve thought about it or not, you are swimming in and infused by Christian water.

This isn’t new. Christianity went to Europe so long ago that it’s in the bible. It properly took over the continent more than a thousand years ago and it became the default wherever Europeans took over.

The fact that there is a smaller percentage of the population practicing Christianity now than than there was a century ago gives the impression that the English-speaking world isn’t so Christian anymore. It’s just an impression. Our culture’s irreligiosity is a thin veneer over a deeply Christian way of being.

Tomorrow I’ll write about how understanding your baked-in Christianness can help you grow.

Tiny deer.

Emmeline does spoken word poetry rap singing and it’s very good.

After this week FFOREST will be taking the traditional two-week summer break. There will be no posts from 14–25 August. I’ll be back on 4 September with something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. I think the time is right.

Grow slowly
Jeff