You know, chaps and dear hearts, across my long and altogether rich life in the professional theatre, I've encountered all kinds of interesting folk. And certainly, as a student in Paris and then in Munich, I picked up a little bit here and there. But, aside from the baby panda in my city's zoo, I can't think I've enjoyed lately anything more than the earnest, fearful, moon-struck Christians who leap to every chance to defend God, as if he (or she) is not capable of defending him- or herself. It is refreshing to see such vigor and dedication to what has surely given some here pause at one time or another--I mean, hey, we're talking about a Bronze Age god of a murdering tribe of desert nomads, and this is the 21st century, the age of space exploration and the Internet and open-heart surgery and coming "cures" of terrifying diseaes and impairments. It demands courage to hold to primitive, antique ideas and notions, and I admire courage in any human being. It's so doggoned rare nowaday.
2007-06-12
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