How many Christians are here?

I am a Christian. However, I don't attend church, because I'm not very social. On the other hand I keep God close to my heart. I am a sinner, and my heart is full of regrets. I feel that every day I find a new way to spit on all I have been given and I just can't turn back some things. So I feel the need for salvation. I believe Jesus came to earth to show us the dangers of ``amor sui', and is our savior. I certainly accept him as my savior.

Is anyone else here a Christian? I imagine most of you are atheists, agnostics or of other religions. This is ok with me, as I understand it is what is fashionable amongst young people these days. However, I'm always happy when I meet a fellow Christian in an unexpected place :)

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This is also why I choose this religion over, for example, the Tao to which someone alluded earlier. I read the Tao or Dao or whatever you like to call it, and it seemed both obvious and repetitive: the primary message I took from it was one of passivity. For example, one suggestion in it is to "Be like water flowing around a rock," meaning that one should take the path of least resistance

That is not the message of Taoism, at all. In all the literature it mentions that becoming a "sage", i.e., one who truly understands the Tao is a very difficult thing to achieve.