Discordian Universalist, or Protestant Catholic

Over the past 4-odd years of my ordained ministry, I've come to identify myself as a Discordian Universalist. The other night, as I was talking to Rev. T. Monkey, I came to realize that this is fairly synonymous with saying I'm Protestant Catholic.

In some sense, this gets back to something I've claimed for a long time now, that I believe in everything, unto contradiction. You'll see this symbol around my work a lot, and it is, among many other things, a mathematical sign for contradiction:

And yet, wheras many people look at these words and see contradiction, I see redundancy. It seems to me as if one might be Protestant without being Catholic, or Discordian without being Universalist, but one cannot be Catholic or Universalist without also being Discordian or Protestant. The One Universal Catholic Church encompasses the contradiction, embraces and perhaps even loves the contradiction. That's what makes it Universal and Catholic, and not just another sect.

So when I modify my "Universalism" with "Discordian" or my "Catholic" with "Protestant," it is not, as is usually the case, an attempt to distinguish myself from the other folks claiming those labels, as if I'm identifying with a subset of the wider universal church. Rather, it is an attempt to push out the boundaries of my religious identity, and point to that boundless center of my faith, that God, that Christ, that place where the two arrows meet, that singularity of transcendance and reconciliation where the walls between sects crumble and all live as one.