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Rated: 13+ · Book · Personal · #181604
just your average... er... correction: just your normal... correction: me.
#255413 added September 3, 2003 at 10:49pm
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"...as though they knew what they were doing..."
I was doing homework and came across this quote:

“The higher Christian churches...come at God with an unwarranted air of professionalism, with authority and pomp, as though they knew what they were doing, as though people in themselves were an appropriate set of creatures to have dealings with God. I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which people have successfully addressed to God without getting killed. In the high churches they saunter through liturgy like Mohawks along a strand of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger. If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it at any minute. This is the beginning of wisdom.”
- Annie Dillard (who later became a Roman Catholic)

School's not bad so far. Mostly good teachers.

Then again, school hasn't kicked into full gear yet either.

And for some reason, I was demoted on this site, but it doesn't say why anywhere. ::shrug::

I need sleep.

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