I did not skip Christianity because it lacked evidence. I skipped it because I did not want Christ to be true.
In this episode, I come clean. I revisit childhood abuse, denominational division in the South, an alcoholic father who rejected Jesus, Iraq, and the years I carried an accusation against God. I explain why New Age spirituality felt safer. It offered a universe without judgment, without sin, without accountability. It preserved autonomy.
But evil is real. Abuse is real. War is real. Justice is real. And once you admit that, you must ground it. New Age could not carry that weight. The logic of moral reality forced me toward something I had deliberately avoided. The Shroud of Turin and the Sudarium of Oviedo made Jesus a historical problem I could no longer dismiss. And that realization did not comfort me. It frightened me.
Next week, we confront Christianity directly. If Christ is real, what did He actually establish?
