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Re: a fly on my pastor's ass

what an un-Christlike attitude.  must be hard to see people when you can't see past you own glorious reflection in the pool, Narcissus.
 
  jay
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: kevin c. taylor
To: waytogojane at hotmail_com ; Over-the-Rhine at actwin_com
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: a fly on my pastor's ass



why is anti-faith always so hip?  people must love watered down whininess of prodigals.  I'm not impressed.

I guess it's hard to see God when you can't see past your nose.  Which would explain the pessimism. 

~kT

>From: "jillian tully"
>Reply-To: "jillian tully"
>To: Over-the-Rhine at actwin_com
>Subject: a fly on my pastor's ass
>Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 12:42:32 -0600
>
>question: am i the *only* knob on this list, or are there others
>hiding?
>*laughs*
>
>anyway, i've been reading this discussion, and it truly amazes me
>how
>intelligent all you folk are...how do you get that way? i want to be
>like
>all of you.
>
>i've left the christian ghetto and made something of myself in the
>world...it feels lovely. yet i can't help looking back and worrying
>about my
>friends still trapped in there. personally, i still believe in god,
>in the
>loosest interpretation of what the word is...but i'm still unsure as
>to
>*what*, forget *who*...god is. my reasons for believing in a supreme
>being
>most likely stem from my insistence that "there has to be something
>else out
>there".
>
>however, i find it ridiculous to label inanimate objects with a word
>reserved for followers and believers in the divinity of a man who
>walked the
>earth giving lectures 2,000 years ago. i find it ridiculous that
>people seek
>out things that are painted up and marketed to them, with promises
>of a
>"better spiritual life", or "less blocks to stumble over".
>
>if christianity began with christ, then why do people insist on
>calling
>these modern fire-and-brimstone authors the gospel, in their own
>ranting,
>raving "this-book-changed-my-life" kind of way? i've *read* some of
>those
>books, and while i enjoyed a couple, and c.s. lewis is still one of
>my
>favourite authors, none of them gave me the desire to "sell out for
>jesus",
>or any catchphrase you want to insert here. none of them made me
>want to
>throw out my tori amos cd's and tear down my rocky horror picture
>show
>poster. no music made me swap all my tight shirts for t-shirts that
>say "got
>jesus?".
>
>no cliquey youth group or college ministry has ever had the answers
>to my
>questions, and they consistently LOOK OVER THE THINGS YOU ALL ARE
>TALKING
>ABOUT! constantly batting away discrepancies in writings and truths
>and
>things people cannot bring themselves to believe like a cow swishing
>flies
>off its ass. is that how my pastors and bible study leaders see me?
>as a fly
>on their ass? what kind of christian love and understanding and
>openmindedness is THAT?
>
>anyway...sorry to take up space with my severely uneducated words.
>we now
>return to our scheduled program, already in progress...
>
>jillian.
>there's only cliches to get across this feeling. - frente
>
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