Wednesday, November 17, 2010

sensible of conditions

A professor sent this quote in response to the piece mi abuelito affectionately referred to as "the one about the baptismal fountain":

"...a favorite Annie Dillard quote: On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews."

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