christianity for stupid people

Karen told me, “I’ve always wanted to read a book that makes Christianity easy to understand for stupid people.” The picture above, while extremely skeptical and possibly sacrilegious, speaks great volumes. A lot of people have great misunderstanding regarding Christianity, and seeing some of the practices in our churches—singing songs to an invisible deity, drinking wine and breaking bread, and reading apocalyptic books like Revelation—only makes this misunderstanding even greater. It would be fantastic if there existed a small book that explored Christianity and made it understandable and logical. There are many great books out there that do this—Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis and Simply Christian by N.T. Wright—but, ultimately, there is a lot of language and concepts used in these works that are difficult to understand. Some people don’t have the desire to read these books and to really think about them. And so they are locked in a misunderstanding of Christianity. Karen challenged me to try and write something extremely simple that makes the plight of humanity and the redemption of the cross and our universe very understandable. I might do it sometime.