Church is full of people with plenty to say and nothing to do. You'd think some of them would help us instead of talk about us, but I guess it's easier to say you love Jesus and harder to act like him.
Religions are poems. They concert our daylight and dreaming mind, our emotions, instinct, breath and native gesture.
I’ve always been struck how…religion is profoundly narrative. All religions convey stories and I think that speaks to who we are as a species.
Full religion is the large poem in loving repetition; like any poem, it must be inexhaustible and complete with turns where we ask Now why did the poet do that?
What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Do you think God has exempted Weybridge? He is not an insurance agent.
Church suddenly became like Father Christmas, something that you never question when you are a child but when you become an adult you realize that the man in that Father Christmas costume is actually your neighbor from down the street.