Cyclical

[poliphilo]

Religion is like sex; When amateurs do it it looks silly.
 
Which is why we have priests and pornstars.

Pontifical High Mass and Ben Dover.

But watching experts perform beautifully gets boring in the end. We want to muck in.

Muck being the operative word.

So along come people like John Wesley or Oral Roberts and- er- here the analogy probably breaks down- and they get the congregation to join in- singing hymns, speaking in tongues.

And it looks silly.

Comments

[amritarosa.livejournal.com]

ha ha ha ha so true!!!

Can't stop the urge to want to muck in. Or the urge to watch/participate from the sidelines in beautifully preformed dramatic ritual.

Which is why I'm forever in between the bondfire and the temple :)

[amritarosa.livejournal.com]

that would be "bonfire" of course (but "bondfire" is kind of a cool word, and an apt description too :)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

If you hadn't told me I'd have assumed a bondfire was some really cool ritual thing I hadn't come across yet- something really esoteric.