I hope you will forgive me for that. I mean instead to share something of my own experience of the faith that is our common confession. I do not usually use the first person so often in a sermon, but it seemed right to do so today. Back when I was a sophomore in college, and knew so much more than I do today, I had a conversation with a junior who knew even more than I did. You suffer from a universal obsessional neurosis, my friend.
Religion is just a narcotic, the opiate of the masses.
Wait till next semester. You'll be over this Christian business by then. I don't know about you, but there are times when I wish my friend were right. How much easier it would be to do without this God who so scandalously appears on the pages of a sacred text limited by both time and culture. If God were a mere projection, I would be off the hook.