Regarding church
I want to put forth here my thoughts and reasonings for returning to our not too big house of worship my immediate family has attended for many decades.
1st -- the reason i first decided on this was an outgrowth of deciding to be with my dad on all doctor visits, hence i shall attempt to attend anything he goes out for, as he has been ill, and is fairly elderly. He has always wanted me to come along, and this also therefore pleases him and my auntie and uncle are much pleased as well about my decision.
The matter of Christianity is far from resolved in my mind, and in general it is my belief that all believers must work out their salvation with fear and trembling, which is a phrase that can be found in one of the epistles towards the end of most bibles.
To mentally prepare and persist with such a habit of going to church, for myself i must all the more feed on sources which would make any of the members of that particular gathering to vehemently shun me.
In close relation to Shakespeare, i must ruminate on the sweet humanistic philosophy in Montaigne's Essays
And the other French Moralists -- La Rochefoucauld, Chamfort, La Bruyere, Fontenelle, Vauvenargues, as well as Pascal, Gracian etc
Re-engage with my old pal Nietzsche, who at times as i recall is not nearly as bad as many a Christian who has just a smattering of knowledge of him would attest.
Along with my extensive array of Christian resources, which i can weigh the sermons and how the manner of the services doth entail, i hear from my dad much of the troubling things going on there:
The old people complain about the modern worship service, they have given up on the old hymns, Oh my Gosh, what a travesty, hast thou ever dids't hear of such foul calumny??!! Dad also confided in me that rumor has it that only 30% of the congregation are on fire Christians. To be on fire is to be saying the name Jesus every other word thou do'st speak with such fervency, it can raise the hairs of anyone with a college education.
But the supreme antidote to the immersion into the fold is the Bard himself, he shall principally keep me sane.
1st -- the reason i first decided on this was an outgrowth of deciding to be with my dad on all doctor visits, hence i shall attempt to attend anything he goes out for, as he has been ill, and is fairly elderly. He has always wanted me to come along, and this also therefore pleases him and my auntie and uncle are much pleased as well about my decision.
The matter of Christianity is far from resolved in my mind, and in general it is my belief that all believers must work out their salvation with fear and trembling, which is a phrase that can be found in one of the epistles towards the end of most bibles.
To mentally prepare and persist with such a habit of going to church, for myself i must all the more feed on sources which would make any of the members of that particular gathering to vehemently shun me.
In close relation to Shakespeare, i must ruminate on the sweet humanistic philosophy in Montaigne's Essays
And the other French Moralists -- La Rochefoucauld, Chamfort, La Bruyere, Fontenelle, Vauvenargues, as well as Pascal, Gracian etc
Re-engage with my old pal Nietzsche, who at times as i recall is not nearly as bad as many a Christian who has just a smattering of knowledge of him would attest.
Along with my extensive array of Christian resources, which i can weigh the sermons and how the manner of the services doth entail, i hear from my dad much of the troubling things going on there:
The old people complain about the modern worship service, they have given up on the old hymns, Oh my Gosh, what a travesty, hast thou ever dids't hear of such foul calumny??!! Dad also confided in me that rumor has it that only 30% of the congregation are on fire Christians. To be on fire is to be saying the name Jesus every other word thou do'st speak with such fervency, it can raise the hairs of anyone with a college education.
But the supreme antidote to the immersion into the fold is the Bard himself, he shall principally keep me sane.
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