Pure

Staying with the somewhat "mysterious" theme of my previous post:

I've been wondering if we modern (post-modern?) folk could ever have a pure form of Christian being / worshipping, or if we've come through so many thousands of years of being influenced by those we've influenced (pagan practices and ideas, or other cultural and traditional beliefs that have crept in unnoticed) that we don't actually know what it looks like anymore!

We've got rituals, prayers, ways of doing things that have arisen out of an obscured past. That may have started as a compromise between the Pure and the Local to keep the peace, but whose origins are lost in history.

So many of us are enamoured with ancient texts and rituals and find our hearts yearning for more of the same. Is it our pagan roots calling, or do these truly express a purity we've lost? Is there even such a purity? Or will we be forever mixed up in trying to figure out Truth from Tradition?

(If I'm not making sense it's because the sun hit my office and has been beating down on my brain for 3 hours straight now... :) ).