| It's easy to say that these are the best of times, | | | | state within which we go through each day. Karl |
| and they are the worst of times as well. People are | | | | Marx rightly saw that for many, religion is an opiate |
| beginning to awaken from their slumber: a spiritual | | | | that numbs our feelings. |
| spring has sprung. The SOMNOLENCE of the religious | | | | Origen said, "People hear fables which they do not |
| masses is about to be changed. It won't feel right at | | | | understand." |
| first; however, in the end it will all work out. Have | | | | The church has so promoted and postured itself |
| faith! | | | | wherein the lay person (knowingly or not) is |
| Religion is a unique aspect of our life. | | | | discouraged in any original thinking, or even loving |
| >We show ourselves as our heroic best and as | | | | questioning. Too many rely upon the competency of |
| our tragic worst. | | | | the priesthood (that may not be such), and actually |
| >We stand strong for great ideals and we | | | | fears getting in trouble with "headship". This built in |
| surrender to delusions. | | | | cultural fear works wonders for the church, but does |
| >We're capable of great nobility and at the same | | | | little for the growth of those sitting in the pews. |
| time petty anger. | | | | Thus man abandons any attempts at reasoning and |
| This list is extensive but the above should get your | | | | certainly takes no theological detours. |
| head in the direction I want to go here. Most of our | | | | Subservience comes in many different wrappers. |
| lives are lived out in a sort of lethargic malaise (think | | | | When it's wrapped in LOVE, it not only looks and |
| Jimmy Carter here) wherein unless something tragic | | | | feels good, but it's GOD as well! |
| comes along we're not even aware of the hypnotic | | | | |