self-diagnosis
i think i understand the sense in which i am a christian now, despite adhering to roughly 0% of any established christian doctrine or creed or practice
for me, the label "christian" describes what i might call a "symbolic orientation" or "semiotic susceptibility". as a product of my upbringing and environment, the iconographies that tend to be the most evocative and affective for me are those from christian traditions, even though that same upbringing and environment makes relating to that tradition in conventional ways utterly infeasible.
now we're cooking with that good dank postmodern gas babyyy