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Why I Choose Not To Be Christian

Spoken with love.

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Mike Norton
Sep 17, 2025
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A reader asked me these questions:

I can be completely transparent about why I do not choose Christianity as my religion.

The only reason why I have hesitated thus far to express why I willfully choose not to be a Christian is because I know how powerfully logical I can be...which can hurt the Christian collective by unintentionally convincing people to leave Christianity when that's not my goal whatsoever.

Odin, looking upon Midgard as he wanders.

Many Christians may want to convert me into their religion, but I have zero desire to convert them into mine. My lack of desire to convert people away from Christianity is also why this response is being put behind a paywall—I don’t want this out in the open out of respect for how I may unintentionally influence people away from their Christ.

Only the hyper-minority of people who really want to know may read this. And it is only those people that I may even listen to, as they have actually paid to read this.

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