Having Indian pakora combo at the farmer’s market after trying out the nice liberal church [post below], where the garden committee was giving away plants—I got the hank of sanseveria you can see here:
Operative word for the church: nice.
Omg, so, so nice. Warm, welcoming, and I met three people who live within a couple blocks of me. Nice!
But, like every time I go to a nice liberal church, I feel so, so Sicilian, and, by extension, Catholic.
This church felt so sanitized. Where’s the weird? Where’s the guts?
I want my statues weeping blood; I want my god broken and bowed, like us – – and joyous and triumphant, like Penny Cooper!
I tell you, I feel more Hindu than I feel Protestant.
Catholic churches are more entertaining especially for an atheist, I go for the art of it, the poetry, the flesh hanging off "saints" ( saint Bart) and the gaping stab wounds in poor silly Sebastian. The rituals are amusing and the folks who drag themselves for miles on their bloodied knees to reach the cathedral. Humans will do just about anything for having wicked thoughts. Redemption? don't know, but the catholics do it best!
ReplyDeleteYeah, that’s my kind of thing. 😆❤️
DeleteI always hated that line in the Mary Oliver poem about the geese, something like,
“you do not have to crawl 100 miles on your knees”.
Bloody hell! I think a whole lotta us should crawl around on our knees, considering all the things we’ve done!
Or failed to do.
You may if you wish but i would advise a hair shirt instead, your knees may not be up to the task. Beside- all we do is GOOD shit so leave it to the orange politicians...
DeleteHa! Bad knees, God, can I have another assignment since YOU designed them???
DeleteWhen grandpa was in the Aussie army (WW1) he was described as Liberal Catholic....
ReplyDeleteInteresting! I wonder what that mean at the time... I sometimes say I'm a Humanist Catholic, or a Freelance Catholic... or even an atheist Catholic!
DeleteMore cultural than dogmatic.