There might be something unwholesome, even slightly insane, in their attempt to remove the category of the divine from human experience. But by storming into the catacombs of doctrinal absurdity, and into television studios where the air is so thick with sanctimony one is surprised that the camera lenses are not in need of a regular wiping-down, the atheists are doing us all a favor. They’re turning up the glare of reality. You’d better thank God for them.
Posted by
tomitron
at
6/10/2007 11:02:00 AM
Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
john northbrooke, c. 1570
1 comment:
"The woolly middle ground of faith — embraced by the majority whose devotions are more dubious — they’re less bothered about."
I have to say these are the folks I worry about most. They are half-assed hypocrites. Folks like Falwell, Haggart, and P. Robertson, are the ultimate "fish in the barrel." It's those McMansionoids driving off to church in their SUVs I can't stand. They are Frauds. I'll take a real monk any day.
Marlone used to work at the Phoenix, BTW.
B.
Post a Comment