I know this is not the case for all people, but there is a special brand of religion where people seem to believe scriptures, tradition and so forth, have everything to do with how things are in the world, and little to do with contact with a higher reality.
In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the ideas of the Church were permeated with mystery, mysticism, prayer, personal connexions to the divine and medieval theologians understood much of religion depended on symbolism to be understood.
Today, people seem to worry about things like how many years has the world existed? How long was the Ark? They also seem to expect very concrete things to happen, like the rapture and read religious texts extremelly literarly, with apparently no care or heed for metaphors and symbols. Has something been lost in our culture that we can no longer approach spiritual ideas with any depth? Are we stuck, as a culture, in a child's spirituality? Why?
2007-01-02
08:24:43
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