# Why I'm Not A Christian

There have been times when I seriously considered Christianity for
my religion. The last time was this month. But I finally have
concluded that Christianity is not for me.


I love Jesus. I respect the apostles. I like theologians like
Palamas, Athenagoras, &c.

I often find that the Orthodox church literally does what I want
to do just within the Christianity boundary. It is essentially
Neoplatonic. Perennial is ecumenical. And I consider itself a
cultural heritage directly came from the Roman empire. It is a
living fossil. A tradition itself.

Although I don't like Thomism and strong hierarchy, I quite like
the Catholic church too. Especially I like distributism. Also I
love people like Francis of Assisi. Catholic has its simplicity,
frugality, cleanness. I really like it.


But Christianity is not for me. Why?



1. It's too historical.

I know that the New Testament makes Christianity far different from
Judaism. But it still heavily depends on Jewish history. Christ is
just a Greek term for Messiah in Hebrew. It's too Jewish specific.
It's too historical.

I want a philosophical religion.


2. In the end, I don't like Abrahamic religions.

I love Greek. I love Hindu. I respect Egyption and Persian.

But Abrahamic? My body strongly resists it.

This is also partially why I don't like Protestant. If you remove
nonbiblical things from Christianity, it becomes quite close to
Judaism. Besides Jesus, what makes this religion attractive is its
Greek or Latin nonbiblical tradition.


3. I accept reincarnation.

If I really have to, I might be able to dispose it. But heaven &
hell and the judgement do not make any sense to me. In contrast,
reincarnation really makes sense if I think of the cycles and
seasonality of the cosmos.



So I'm not going to be a Christian. This also means that I'm not
going to be in a major religion. Because I don't want to go for
Hinduism or Buddhism bypassing the Orthodox church.