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O Little Town Of Bethlehem
I have sympathy with the vicar who decided he didn't want to be singing "O, Little Town of Bethlehem" this year. He'd been to the real Bethlehem, seen what a shit-hole it is, got involved with the politics- and couldn't square his experience with the fantasy version in the carol.
"How still we see thee lie"? Actually, no.
It's the job of a priest to point this sort of thing out.
Christianity isn't just bubblebath for the soul. There's also the social gospel.
Myth and ethics: a powerful- and volatile- combination.
Besides, there are plenty more carols to chose from.
"How still we see thee lie"? Actually, no.
It's the job of a priest to point this sort of thing out.
Christianity isn't just bubblebath for the soul. There's also the social gospel.
Myth and ethics: a powerful- and volatile- combination.
Besides, there are plenty more carols to chose from.
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And thus is paved the road to Hell - or at least irrelevancy.
I was raised United Methodist, even groomed for the clergy at one point, but abandoned them for the Episcopal Church. Then the Episcopalians, in that same sense of tone-deaf and misguided reform, forced "Rite 2" on us by fiat.
I think I'm a half-assed Chan Buddhist these days. I did a stint in the Gnostic Catholic Church, in which I was elevated to the clergy, but it emerged that their leadership were a bunch of clueless wankers as well.
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