Why I am starting this blog

Hi, everyone. My name is Christine, and this is my - what? 15th or 20th blog/webpage. (URLs by request only, and give me a few days to compile them!)

I'm starting this, yet another new blog, because I started posting some theological musings on Facebook, but had the following problems almost immediately:

1. My Facebook friends run the gamut from "how dare you question God!!!" believers to "why don't you ditch that stupid superstition?" nonbelievers. So it's difficult to get any kind of rational discussion going.
2. The Facebook format itself is not all that conducive to discussion. Sure, you can post a few comments underneath the main post, but after a while it gets really difficult to navigate back to the same thread.
3. Facebook keeps changing its format, which makes it even harder than ever to find your previous posts and read new comments.

For these reasons I've decided to revive the venerable and somewhat abandoned art of blogging. And I'm actually looking forward to it, because I have yet to set up a blog that was actually a success, in the sense that it lasted more than a few months.

I'd really like to make this a blog for the ages. I'd like to listen and respond to your comments as best I can. But mostly I'd like to just have a place where I can say things like, "Sometimes I'm not 100% sure if Jesus Christ, who I admire tremendously, is really God in the flesh," and not be told (a) "You heretic! Begone!" or (b) "What took you so long to figure that out, idiot?"

I guess the best way to express what I'm trying to get across is in my blog description itself, with that wonderful quote by the French philosopher Simone Weil:

Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because,

before being Christ, he is truth.

If one turns aside from him to go towards the truth,

one will not go far before falling into his arms.

In this blog, I want to "go towards the truth", no matter where it may lead me, because if Jesus Christ really is The Truth, then that's where He'd want me to go.

Right?