Challenging Thoughts from an Unlikely Source
For the past few years I’ve been reading through The Art of Manliness’ “100 Must-Read Books: The Man’s Essential Library.” There have been some great selections (I’ve really enjoyed reading Steinbeck for the first time) and some that just don’t work for me. Tom Robbins’ Another Roadside Attraction was one that I had a hard time enjoying. But in the midst of all the psychadelic oddities, I found these two quotes critiquing the American church of 1971. Unfortunately, they still apply today.
Prayer meetings have turned into existential group therapy sessions, liturgies into rock-and-roll shows.
I saw all around me a voracious spiritual hunger, but the Paleolithic mush served up by the church was neither nutritious nor appetizing.