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I am much more naturally drawn towards honest, real-world expressions of religious thought & experience than predictable, dogma-driven sermons. (I don't really think it's Salon's responsibility to provide that sort of thing anyway.) I can really identify with some of Ms. Steinke's feelings, and her struggle to reconcile the horrors of human existence with its joys and simple pleasures... all of which are seemingly given to us by the same God. I especially appreciated the taxi cab driver's thoughts: "Religions are not directly from God. Religion is finite. God is not finite, but infinite." Even though I am an evangelical Christian, I find more and more truth in this point of view as I grow older. People are all too eager to imprison God within a doctrinal framework. But I don't think that's where God is. He's outside of the boxes we construct for him, not inside them. A discomfiting thought, perhaps; but in my opinion, ultimately a liberating one.
