Tristan Tate

And on the young mind, I think that can be quite a damaging environment, especially because I had no Christian role models in my life to really look up to.

So atheism, I slipped into it more from a lack of interest in religion than a rejection of what I've been taught as a child.

But yeah, it was my love of European history, the study of European history that that made me, you know, reanalyze my position.

and look into, I guess, what I was missing out on.

And I was baptized into the Orthodox Christian Church twice, in fact, once about eight years ago, maybe nine years ago, and once last year again.

But there's a reason I was rebaptized, and we can visit that later.

Yeah.

So you're Orthodox Christian.

That was my next question.

I am Orthodox Christian, yes.

I'm Orthodox Christian mainly because of the culture of the environment I live in.

Yep.

I'm Orthodox Christian because that's where I fell back in love with the church and fell back in love with the message of Jesus Christ.

But I have absolutely no hatred in my heart for other Christian denominations.

I feel like the days when we used to stab and kill and murder each other are over.

And if somebody says to me they're an evangelical or a non-denominational Christian or a Catholic, I'm very happy to consider them my brother because we all believe in the same message.

Well, I think, and we can get into the great schism and exactly why these two faiths separated in my take on it, but I think that they are certainly, beyond doubt, the original Church of Jesus Christ.

Everybody, you know, some people consider the Catholic Church the original Church.

I consider the Orthodox Church the original Church, and I'm not sure how much history you know behind that.

I'm happy to go into why.