Dear Mila,

I must tell you, this isn’t going exactly how I imagined it. I really thought that by this time I would have received a response from you. But as I reflect upon it now, that’s completely ridiculous. You’re Mila Kunis! I’m some anonymous dude on the Internets. Ha! There’s so many crazies out there, it would be easy for you to just lump me in with them and never have to think about me again. So, I don’t blame you, really. Perhaps I should tell you a little bit more about myself, you know, to allay your reservations.

My real name is Kiren. It’s only fair that I tell you this since I know yours. And I’ll have you know, that I’ve worked really hard at keeping my real name unknown. So be flattered. But let’s not fool ourselves, only my friends read this website, so they already know who I am. I chose the alias RustedJesus to refer to what I believe is the condition of religious institutionalism. I think it is corroding, corrupt, controlling, contrived, conniving, and circumstantial. And yet I find theology, mythology, and their subsequent movements of mythography very intriguing, important, interesting, inherent, intimate, and imaginative. I myself, am not religious. As I like to say, I believe in science. And that’s not to say that I don’t believe in some sort of higher power, I just don’t think it’s possible for our minds to comprehend how it works. And I certainly don’t think it controls our decisions or has created a heaven or hell. E. E. Evans-Pritchard came up with this theory–through field research in Africa–called Functional Structuralism. It basically states that all societies are fundamentally rational (white Europeans maintained for a long time that most, if not all, African societies were non-rational). And yet, in our world, rationality cannot explain all events, these events usually get labeled as coincidence, miracles, luck, destiny, fate, magic, or witchcraft. Anyway, the long and short of it is that Evans-Pritchard said that people can only think within their own thoughts. Thus, (and this is my thoughts now) we could never really know how a higher, non-corporeal power works. Thus scriptures claim that we were made made in the image of God simply because it’s impossible for us to imagine anything else. You can try, but you will invariable attach human qualities of existence to God, Allah, Jehova, Krishna, or whatever deity or power you try to imagine then describe. So I don’t even bother. I’m not sure where I was going with all this, but you just released a movie about God and the Bible (which in reality doesn’t really exist, the Bible I mean), so this possibly relevant to our nonconversation.

I currently attend graduate school in the southeast and teach lower level English Lit. and Composition classes at the University. I also write for this website. I like to wear ties, listen to James Brown, Kid Cudi, the Eagles, White Stripes, the Knife, Queen, and the Gossip, among others. And as promised, my current favorite song to drive to is a tie between “Heavy Cross” by the Gossip and “In the City” by the Eagles. Actually, I lied. I don’t like listening to the Eagles. Except for “In the City,” which is mostly because of The Warriors.

So I encourage to write back, either through the comments or you can create your own alias and submit a letter to the website. Just click here to do so. Otherwise this is going to get really boring, really fast. Can you dig it?

Sincerely,