This thread is looking like it's headed for the outhouse.
On 11/6/2013 10:10 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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
---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
> enoughto continue, since I really wasn't into the Personal God aspect of
the belief system
> (orChrist 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.*
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> 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
> finallyturned 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.*
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*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.*
