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A man who was trying to convert me once asked what he thought was a rhetorical question.
“What do you have to lose by becoming a Christian?”
“Everything,” I answered hastily. “Everything that’s important to me. To become a Christian I would have to renounce every other religion. I would have to give up the possibility of other spiritual beliefs being true. I can’t do that. I am not a Christian.” I told him. “But I am also not a Bhuddhist and I am not a Hindu, Jew, Muslim, or Confuscianist.” I don’t think he had an answer to that. He sort of cocked his head to one side and fished for words. Unfortunately, my ride came for me just then and I have never seen him since. I don’t know whether his question revealed more to him or to me. The exchange was, in a way, the culmination of my religious experience in the past nine months in Ghana. I have learned more about Christianity than I would ever have allowed myself in the U.S. but I am, if anything, even more agnostic.