You're all sounding like desiccated corpses drying in the desert. There is another type of Christian life here in America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0M94z3Pev4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0M94z3Pev4 ---In [email protected], <authfriend@...> wrote: Seraphita wrote: > Re "Then after starting TM I began to feel a need for a worship context and > joined the > church where I'd attended Sunday School, stayed a couple of years but wasn't > inspired > enough to continue, since I really wasn't into the Personal God aspect of > the belief system > (or Christ as savior). God as Unified Field, the ultimate (and > unworshipable) abstraction, is > about as far as I can go. ": > > Again very close to my view. Here in the UK, the Anglican Church is > essentially a wishy- > washy nostalgia circus for reminding grown-ups of their childhood. (With > bits of Arthurian > romance added to the mix.) So all pretty harmless. Even arch-atheist Richard > Dawkins has > confessed to occasionally popping into a church just to enjoy the aesthetic > experience! Heehee. Be fun to see that guy Spufford look up from his prayers and clap eyes on Dawkins. > Having always been intrigued by the occult fringe, I've also seen some > attraction in the > Catholic position: the Mass as a magical ritual and the unembarrassed > veneration of those > medieval mystics. Even such unregenerates as Oscar Wilde, Baudelaire and > Huysmans > finally turned to Rome as they sensed it was the more poetical religion. Huh, I'm attracted by the poetry/music/incense/art/theatrical aspects as well. Goes way back with me to the (wonderful) Audrey Hepburn film "The Nun's Story." I think I'd need a Peter Finch equivalent, though. To this day I have no idea whether my late father had any religious sensibility whatsoever, but he adored churches and religious music and painting. I guess it's in the genes. I might be tempted to pop into a Catholic church at some point if they were doing a mass in Latin. There's something really magical about Latin. Like Sanskrit, I suppose, but the music is a lot better. ;-) I once memorized the Hail Mary in Latin just because I loved the sound of it. My Presbyterian ancestors (Huguenots, no less) must have spun themselves nearly out of their graves.
