Thank you Photini - The best I could do is be authentic as I am,
   as I see myself at present, and provide stories that may be
   comparable in some fashion to perhaps help, or if nothing else,
   act as a "case study" as "a guy I know went through it and this
   is what he tried". It "seems right" to behave this way and I
   don't know why nor do I try to guess at this point. I have a
   hope that God works in synonymous forms so as to benefit even
   those who may have received broken educations and I try to find
   those "points in common" and call them out when I see them. I
   speak freely about my five years deeply involved with great
   fondness and seem to have found myself surrounded online with
   many atheists with some _tremendously broken_ views of human
   history and religion in general and Christianity in particular.
   So, I try to help them. I bring up my positive experiences. I
   fill in some of their gaps in historical knowledge. I declare
   the word "agnostic" to them which appeases them while also
   explaining that perhaps the thing they refer to as Christianity
   isn't Christianity at all, but a splinter of a splinter of a
   splinter, far removed from the real thing, which is Orthodoxy.
   [i also like to tease by pointing out their Atheism is a product
   of Protestantism and trace the movement THEY'RE a part of back
   for them. It frustrates me that their views of history are _so
   limited_ that they can't see what they're a part of and that the
   broad brush they paint with just might be a little TOO broad.]
   None of this really speaks to faith. I don't know if I can help
   people in that way. But the drive to broaden people's horizons
   is HUGE in me, for once I was exposed to Orthodoxy I saw human
   history in a whole new light, in particular Western
   Civilization.. not as a series of distinct events on a timeline,
   but as a continuity of peoples and concepts, traveling across
   time, putting me next to Plato when I speak from his concepts,
   next to St John Climacus when I speak with his. Somehow I feel
   that if I can help bring people to a broader view of Time...
   their relationship to be embraced by a "beyond comprehension"
   grows more possible... What comes of it? I don't know. It's a
   compulsion from a force I can't name. I just let my fingers
   start typing until they stop.