tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post5471386844951074361..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: Holy OfficiousnessUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-12010799657328349322009-07-08T12:35:16.428-04:002009-07-08T12:35:16.428-04:00I had the great good luck not to be born into a fu...I had the great good luck not to be born into a fundamentalist church or household, but I was certainly surrounded by them. They almost squeezed the religion out of me.<br /><br />I tip my hat in salute to all those (like Rick+) who grew up in such churches, and survived with their faith and their humanity intact.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-66309822007747764832009-07-08T11:22:34.787-04:002009-07-08T11:22:34.787-04:00Dear Doug,
As usual, you're educating me. I ...Dear Doug,<br /><br />As usual, you're educating me. I had to look up three words in your post, including "Towers of Silence" (Now that I know what they are, may I just say as an educated, grown man... icky!)<br /><br />Your experience with fundamentalism is the same as mine. I was raised in the conservative Church of Christ. The splits and the fighting and arguments about who's in and who's out continue in my little valley to this day. Being raised in a faith that stripped the Holy Spirit of every way of entry except the intellect was truly a desert. All other ways were deeply suspect or flat-out condemned: Art, music, dance, etc. <br /><br />Coming to the Episcopal Church was like having color suddenly rush into my faith: If the Holy Spirit doesn't get to you through the Word, how about the liturgy or the stained glass or through groups or through music? We build armor around ourselves as we live that seems to prevent the Holy Spirit from getting into our lives. Faith in Christ seems to call us to a process of peeling those hard layers off so we can bathe in the Holy Spirit. The Episcopal Church seems to do a good job of creating as many chinks in the armor as possible.Rick+https://www.blogger.com/profile/03322574092020268536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-14429182133890036572009-07-07T23:23:03.937-04:002009-07-07T23:23:03.937-04:00Interesting comparison, Counter, about their Bible...Interesting comparison, Counter, about their Bibles and Samurai swords. The one time my mom turfed me off to a Baptist Vacation Bible School for a week, what I remember the most were "sword drills," where they would call out a Bible verse and the kids all scrambled to flip their Bible open and be the first to find the verse.<br /><br />Needless to say, as the non-Bapist in the group, I really sucked at it.Kirkepiscatoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02651684515435040529noreply@blogger.com