Although he claims to have converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in the early 1990s, by 2012 he was professing agonsticism regarding the central tenets of Christianity and even the usefulness of faith itself, all while still attending and taking communion in an Orthodox church. He said, “to be a Christian is not to believe in Jesus in terms of who he was, whether he is the Son of God, rose from the dead or not, it is to believe in that life as an example. . . . Belief is useless … but doing is very difficult.”<ref>http://www.theird.org/page.aspx?pid=2285</ref> | Although he claims to have converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in the early 1990s, by 2012 he was professing agonsticism regarding the central tenets of Christianity and even the usefulness of faith itself, all while still attending and taking communion in an Orthodox church. He said, “to be a Christian is not to believe in Jesus in terms of who he was, whether he is the Son of God, rose from the dead or not, it is to believe in that life as an example. . . . Belief is useless … but doing is very difficult.”<ref>http://www.theird.org/page.aspx?pid=2285</ref> |