What we call Christianity today, the religion of Christianity, may not be exactly what the Christ had in mind. It may be a human interpretation and institutional package of the religion that Jesus promoted, but there is no reason to throw out the baby with the bath water. When I was about four years old, I recognized the difference between Baby Jesus in the manger and Santa Claus. There was the religious iconography of baby Jesus in the manger and the Christian Christmas story. And even at a very young age before I started school, I'm like, yeah, Santa Claus is a kid’s story, but this is baby Jesus in a manger being sent down from God to redeem humankind. Well, I could relate to that. That was clearly a difference in kind from Santa Claus. It seems to me that people who don't recognize Jesus and who don't accept the whole notion that there is a God above and that there can be a Christ who is a very special etherical character that was sent into this cosmos in order to help us out—that’s a sad thing. I recognized Jesus when I was very, very young. Anyway, I want you to realize that I have been a follower of Jesus for over 60 years now, and during that time I've been a very active student of the Bible and of Jesus in particular. I've been taking most of my spiritual notes from the red letter editions of the Bible, listening to Jesus himself. Yes, I've been in and out of churches, particularly in my teenage years and early 20s, but after I was married, my husband didn't enjoy church, and so I stopped going. Nowadays I'm able to devote most of my time to spiritual pursuits (as a widow), but my spiritual pursuits are not what most people’s are who currently follow either Christianity or Gnosticism. And yet I'm calling myself a Gnostic Christian. So, I'm following the Bible. And I am very happy that this new edition of the Bible came out—The New Testament by David Bentley Hart—which is a fresh interpretation of the New Testament from the original Greek. Most of the editions of the Bible that people read in church or that you have on your bookshelves at home are derivative of an old Latin translation hundreds of years old that has been Anglicized ever since, so the original meaning of the words are often lost or misrepresented. And those are the Bibles that people are following in what is now called the Christian religion. There are a lot of errors in Christianity, but I find myself in a peculiar situation of being what I would call a true Christian. I know Jesus; I was baptized. In the past couple of years, I've been listening more to radio preachers again, like I used to in the old days, and I often find myself agreeing with what they say. I agree with 90% of what is taught in the Christian Church. It's that 10% that's the problem. For example, a very important issue is that all Christian churches believe that you need to right now accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, period, because if you die before accepting Jesus, you aren't going to heaven. And this causes much anxiety and much angst amongst Christians whose relatives, children, husbands, friends haven't accepted the Christ—will not pray the sinner’s prayer and ask Jesus into their hearts. Because they've been taught, and therefore they believe, that all those people are going to hell, and they are anxious about it. Yesterday I went to church. I don't often go, I must say, but it was a Communion day and someone asked me to go. I think it's a good thing to ask people to go to church and so I honored her by going w...